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How Much Does Your Work Depend on the Internet?
malord asks: "I work for a small company that has recently had problems finding a stable internet connection. It started when we moved our office in order to upgrade our connection speed. We decided to go with cable internet through Comcast, since they offered the best speed for the price and told us that it would be available before we moved. Unfortunately, Comcast did not provide any service for two months after we moved, so we piggy backed on an existing (slow and unreliable) wireless account with another company in the meantime. When Comcast finally came around, the service that was provided was far from adequate with a consistent 30% packet loss and multiple disconnects everyday, which was confirmed through Comcast's tech support. Throughout this process, we have realized that having a reliable internet connection is more important than having a phone line and almost as necessary as electricity. What would you do if your internet was suddenly like dial-up for weeks at a time? How much money would your workplace lose if it was out for an hour or an entire day?"
WRONG!!! You can mod me as flamebait, troll, fanboi, etc, but your problem is NOT the ISP, your config or anything like that. Your problem can be fixed for $60 (US) buy purchasing a Motorola Surfboard cable modem. My dorm (residential) connection is so reliable that I can run a business off of it if I wanted to. My CableCo Atlantic Broadband and they lease these out (this is how I have mine) and nobody here in my school has had a problem and that's good because its cable or dial-up no DSL even though we are in a suburb of Johnstown, Pa.
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Big deal -- you still waited until the last minute of the two weeks to cut over. You should have allowed a full week of overlapped availability so you had a fallack possibility. That's what you get for letting go with both hands at once.
welcome to nerdom! Nerds are the most arrogant people on the planet. They make red necks look like altruistic moderates. It doesn't matter *what* you do, or have, or want to know about, you will always be (to any other nerd) a lamer, stupid, under equipped, in over your head, a n00b and etc. Any other nerd will *always* know more than you, have already figured out your problem before you have finished outlining it, always will have the perfect solution, and can do it faster and better.
That's the rules...you see.. in meatspace..no one "straight" really likes nerds, they merely tolerate them because sometimes they sort of half way know something and can be put to some practical use. Think a slightly more intelligent forrest gump, but with a mean steak, and there ya go, today's nerd. Nerds develop hyper arrogance and paranoid delusions of grandeur early in life to deal with the pressure of the outside world and a host of inadequacies. They develop strange skills in little niche areas, get good at it, and have to always think they are the best on the planet or they collapse. Really, I mean it, psychland and stuff. Then they get weird technical jobs were they can reign supreme over their own technical little kingdom. Society accepts this arrangement. The straights know this, the nerds know this, but they play act at forgetting it to keep from going completely crazy. It's always a razor sharp thin line away, too, sad to say.. The straights never forget this though.
I don't wish it so, but that's how it is. We are all nerds here (well, most of us, there are apparently some voyeurs), so calm down, don't take anything personally, even if it is a direct flame. It's just nerd hard coded DNA response, there is no help for it.
Your company is worth what, $50? Why would you use cable as your primary internet connection as a company? We have three levels of internet connection backup (primary T3, backup cable, 2nd backup hijack our neighbors wireless ;)) If we lost connection, my company would lose at least 10K per hour. Get a real job, good luck newbie.
I hope I wasn't too harsh but this is a very stupid question...
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