Breaking News: Major Power outages in many cities

[Dr Mordrid]

I was amazed that Comcast's cable ISP was working as soon as the power came up at 11:00 pm Thursday night.

Dr. Mordrid

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
@tjalfe: What ISP are u using?

@home I am using Netrover Dialup ( free deal with work)
@work we use bell sympatico Business DSL
right now I am online at work using Sympatico's dial up account, which is included with 20 hours with the DSL account... slow as hell having 5 machines sharing 56K

[thop]

Originally posted by tjalfe
slow as hell having 5 machines sharing 56K

[Dr Mordrid]

Gentlemen; we now have a new definition for "masochism"

Dr. Mordrid

[The PIT]

5 machines sharing a 56k line.
One shudders.

[Tjalfe]

DSL line just went back online.. woohoo

[Liquid Snake]

I had no UPS or any backup power, so I could not power on my router to check if my DSL was ever down during the blackout. It was up after the power came back the next day. I remember some guy who did have a UPS though, said that his Verizon ADSL service was up during the entire blackout.

And five people on a 56k?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

5 people sharing dial up

and yea... I am using sympatico high speed at home. At 11am friday i was connected already. fast as hell! guess i am lucky heh

hey tjalfe: is Netrover any good? i found sympatico too expensive, and hate the bandwidth limit. So yea... I am looking for a new ISP.

[agallag]

My rogers cable connection was back up friday morning as soon as I woke up. The power came back around 5am, and the net connection was up at least by 8am, possibly sooner. I was quite pleased.