How to Handle an Internet Outage

canadian_right writes "Do you know what to do if your internet connection goes down? This article includes many helpful tips, including a functional use for AOL disks."

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Re:Use AOL? Are you nuts?

[krisp]

Perhaps you should have read the article.

10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk
If you find that your connection to the Internet is going to be longer than you can possibly stand, as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.

This article is satire. You must be one of the people referred to in Step 8.

Laptops

[bazik]

This Article is missing that you can always grab your WLAN enabled Laptop and go War-Driving if your connection is down :)

Re:Laptops

[TheRaven64]

Or, just use your bluetooth / GPRS mobile phone, although at around 2 quid / MB it's a bit expensive. Mind you, you could always try forwarding the bill to your ISP...

Bad advice on the AOL CD's

[mwa]

Everyone knows it's "down, not across". (See 5.4)