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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Portable DSL?I had a guest check in today for his vacation home who brought his DSL modem with him, because he's convinced he can plug it in to the phone line at his unit here in Sunriver, and he'll get his DSL. I had to tell him that it wouldn't work. He didn't believe me. He just called me, asked us to give him SBC/Yahoo's 800 number so he could call them and yell at them because apparently he was told he could do that. If I could take a DSL modem and plug it into any phone plug in the world and have it magically work, I'd buy one -- or a dozen -- myself. Meanwhile, I gave the guest the local AOL, Earthlink, and NetZero dial up numbers, because he said he had an account with one of them, but he couldn't remember which one. Posted by Jake on 06/28/04 @ 04:34 PM
Posted in Moronic | 5 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 5 CommentsThomas said on 06/28/04 @ 11:41 PM:Hahaha that's great! :) Jesse Thompson said on 06/29/04 @ 03:11 AM: At least he thought far enough ahead to realize it did have to plug into something. You should see the ideas that some people get into their heads watching intel centrino commericals nowadays. "But it's 'wireless internet', doesn't it come from, like, satelites or something?" ankit_fadia said on 07/07/04 @ 07:02 PM: Well they say you can take the person away from idiocy but you can't take the idiocy out of the person ...... ------------ mess wit the best die like the rest ------------ Drew said on 11/10/04 @ 01:39 PM: There is actually a portable DSL unit, it goes off cell phone towers, and connects at 1.5mb down and 500kb up.. www.Intelos.com has it.. -- they also ping very well! Buy a dozen because it's TRUE it's out! x102020 said on 08/31/07 @ 03:17 PM: its true, telus (in canada) makes these also...the only thing is its new technology still, and i know the 1 from telus is about $2000 right now. although its sweet, because its literally internet anywhere you travel... i know cogeco is starting to produce alot of wireless hotspots, free, public internet...speeds are decent too. question though, if you have seen vonage modems...they are entirely remote, you can use it anywhere there is internet...now why can't they design the exact same thing for your dsl internet? just because the lines are owned by different companies? why can't it use ANY phone lines signal (well, thats 2 pair ne ways). pretty much, design a portable, remote & secure high speed modem for reasonable pricing. Post a comment |
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