Connection Troubles...

My friend when I don't have my internet I scream, I go stir crazy, it's like going cold turkey LOL! Seriously. I am with BT and touch wood have had a very very good service with them, unlike its predecessor where I was tearing my hair out in anger for the amount of times I lost connection, I got paranoid in the end thinking it was just me or they were doing it on purpose because I complained so much!

If I can't use my computer, I will go find something else to do. I might even do nothing for a while. There are a million of other things you could do. Such as playing with your son. That is valuable time that should not be replaced by computer time. And we all could use a bit more exercise.

I go thru internet withdrawels, I get the shakes, my stomach hurts, I get a head ache, hehe.

not very often my internet connection is down. if it goes off in the daytime i will go out and meet friends but if its after 12am then i will go to bed

Well for one I'd complain, say I use it for work and that it's harming my work, that I'd like to be provided with the service I've been paying or am paying for... I get real upset when this stuff happens to me, cause it did recently, and this company I am with can be so incompetent sometimes but I think it's due to lack of competition...

I am not so dependent on the internet. If I do not have the net I just curl up to a good book, they are my lifeblood. If I did not have books around then I would go through the withdrawl symptoms. I get fidgety, try to do something, anything to keep my mind off things. This has never happened to me save one time when we were shifting into our home and forgot where I kept my books, ofcourse ther was no TV or net either so I went nuts trying to stay clam. I had infact resorted to doing stupid things like vaccuming everyday just so I could keep myself from getting totally bored.

Well I am lucky that good old British Telecom are generally pretty good, and I have very few problems - hope I haven't jinxed anything now!! Occasionally of course, I do lose connection for an hour here or there, but it doesn't really stress me too much. I know if the worst comes to the worst, I can always go online from work the next day to check my emails or whatever, and I always have loads of gardening/housework etc to do at home, so I tend not to notice it much. I love my Internet, and the connection it gives me with people all over the world, and friends I cannot see too often, but I am by no means addicted to the Internet!

I also encountered connection problem a few days ago. Its one reason that I was far behind with all my friend's discussions. I tried using dial up but my goodness, its taking me forever to load one page after another. It took the broadband company 5 days to reconnect my internet. "sigh"