Today [4]

[Kari]

Have been busy with this thing called Life, mostly offline, posting a post per day. Finally time and inspiration to do some extensive SF surfing and then this bloody thunderstorm. Power was cut for about 10-12 minutes, now working again. Seems we are going to have this storm above us at least couple days more:



(Temps degrees Celsius. 20°C = 68°F)

Anyway, after we got power back I sat down by computer and noticed the modem is dead. Thought first it's the router but it's still working, I have access to my local network (VDSL, rigs and other devices connected to router, router to modem, modem to the world).

It's absolutely, completely dead. It smells like it was burning, but I've not seen any smoke. No lights, no effing nothing Of course the normally quite fast mobile 3G connection, using Nokia phone as modem, sucks today. Getting 0.6 / 0.2 Mbps DL/UL, ping 228 ms!

What did people do before broadband connections?

Kari

 

[Dinesh]

Have been busy with this thing called Life, mostly offline, posting a post per day. Finally time and inspiration to do some extensive SF surfing and then this bloody thunderstorm. Power was cut for about 10-12 minutes, now working again. Seems we are going to have this storm above us at least couple days more:

View attachment 88015

(Temps degrees Celsius. 20°C = 68°F)

Anyway, after we got power back I sat down by computer and noticed the modem is dead. Thought first it's the router but it's still working, I have access to my local network (VDSL, rigs and other devices connected to router, router to modem, modem to the world).

It's absolutely, completely dead. It smells like it was burning, but I've not seen any smoke. No lights, no effing nothing Of course the normally quite fast mobile 3G connection, using Nokia phone as modem, sucks today. Getting 0.6 / 0.2 Mbps DL/UL, ping 228 ms!

What did people do before broadband connections?

Kari

God bless you my friend.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Have been busy with this thing called Life, mostly offline, posting a post per day. Finally time and inspiration to do some extensive SF surfing and then this bloody thunderstorm. Power was cut for about 10-12 minutes, now working again. Seems we are going to have this storm above us at least couple days more:

View attachment 88015

(Temps degrees Celsius. 20°C = 68°F)

Anyway, after we got power back I sat down by computer and noticed the modem is dead. Thought first it's the router but it's still working, I have access to my local network (VDSL, rigs and other devices connected to router, router to modem, modem to the world).

It's absolutely, completely dead. It smells like it was burning, but I've not seen any smoke. No lights, no effing nothing Of course the normally quite fast mobile 3G connection, using Nokia phone as modem, sucks today. Getting 0.6 / 0.2 Mbps DL/UL, ping 228 ms!

What did people do before broadband connections?

Kari

Welcome back you old fart!
Sorry to hear about your misfortunes with you connections.

People use to pick up the phone and dialed their friends( in your case there aren't any) or they wrote beautiful letters to one another.
That's what we did before broadband!

 

[CarlTR6]

Today, i was finally able to "borrow" some wireless internet from some neighbors here in Sweden ''

Anyway, i'm doing good up here Drinking and partying every night. Tonight we are taking it easy tho

Anyway just wanted to let ya know where i've been if you didnt know

Cya

Glad you are having a good time and glad you were able to "borrow" a wireless connection.

Have been busy with this thing called Life, mostly offline, posting a post per day. Finally time and inspiration to do some extensive SF surfing and then this bloody thunderstorm. Power was cut for about 10-12 minutes, now working again. Seems we are going to have this storm above us at least couple days more:

View attachment 88015

(Temps degrees Celsius. 20°C = 68°F)

Anyway, after we got power back I sat down by computer and noticed the modem is dead. Thought first it's the router but it's still working, I have access to my local network (VDSL, rigs and other devices connected to router, router to modem, modem to the world).

It's absolutely, completely dead. It smells like it was burning, but I've not seen any smoke. No lights, no effing nothing Of course the normally quite fast mobile 3G connection, using Nokia phone as modem, sucks today. Getting 0.6 / 0.2 Mbps DL/UL, ping 228 ms!

What did people do before broadband connections?

Kari

Good to hear from you, Kari. We had our daily afternoon thunderstorm and promptly lost power for about two hours. ours just came back on. Thankfully, I have a UPS.

 

[iseeuu]

What did people do before broadband connections?

Kari

I used to pop bbs messages ... like poping email ...

 

[johnwillyums]

Before broadband connections I used to go out and meet real people. I only ever once met some real Finnish people though so it's swings and roundabouts really

 

[Barman58]

Before broadband the only thing I can remember doing is waiting .... and waiting .... and waiting

 

[Tews]

Before broadband I had a 25k/sec dial up... :shock:

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Just found a picture of Kari's work station.
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and he is thinking his modem is dead!
How would you find it in this mess.:roflmao::roflmao:

 

[Tews]

Just found a picture of Kari's work station.
View attachment 88037

and he is thinking his modem is dead!
How would you find it in this mess.:roflmao::roflmao:

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Just found a picture of Kari's work station.
View attachment 88037

and he is thinking his modem is dead!
How would you find it in this mess.:roflmao::roflmao:

Don't worry Tews...Kari is expecting me to do something like this.
In fact he is probably at the pub betting that I will do something like this.
This is me new set up....
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[LADYPINKtomato1]

Good news ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38439213/ns/technology_and_science-security

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Good night everyone I am done for the day.....
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[Jonathan_King]

Good night everyone I am done for the day.....
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See you tomorrow THW...

 

[CarlTR6]

Good news ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38439213/ns/technology_and_science-security

That is good news. The spy agencies of the various nations will be wanting to hire him!

 

[CarlTR6]

Good night everyone I am done for the day.....
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Good night, Dennis.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Also posted here: http://www.sevenforums.com/news/100301-creator-mariposa-botnet-arrested.html

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Dennis tc nitey nite.. rest well.. see you tomorrow..

 

[Everlong]

Before broadband I had a 25k/sec dial up... :shock:

I don't remember life before broadband.

 

[Tews]

Before broadband I had a 25k/sec dial up... :shock:

I don't remember life before broadband.

It wasn't pretty...