Four hours without my DSL! The HORROR!

Lol Sweetie I know how that feels I had to go 3 Days without and that was certainly bad believe me I am glad that you have it back now as I could not handle you being without it lol If you get like I do without I hope everyone stays clear of you lol Love you Sweet and have a great New Year

Hello! Hahaha, things like that always happens. Errors happen, and the companies improve with those. Before, it always happened here at home, we had to call technicians all the time, and they'd even come here to solve it. Now there are no more problems, except that some weeks ago it was really slow. I'm glad you're back. Respectfully.

yes really internet has become my life.I cant think of living my life without internet.I fell very relaxed and satisfied while surfing the net.I like to chat,blog,making new friends and explore the depthness of resources present in the internet.

Hi Katlady2, I know where you're coming from here. Right now, we're at my sister's for our annual Christmas vacation, and we've brought our 'somewhat malfunctioning' CPU and monitor with us. It's a toss up as to which is causing the trouble. My sister's going to look into it for us, as she's good at this, and if she can't figure it out, it'll have to go to 'our technician.' I hope we don't have to return home on January 4th without our computer. My daughter and I would be lost without it.:( I'm glad that yours is up and running again for you.:)

Four whole hours? I would require the padded room! Yes, they tell you its your fault all the time that they're scrambling to fix it...

Hi,there! Sorry to hear that your internet was broken for a while. I could understand your feeling pretty well cause I've also had such experiences before.At that time,I couldn't do anything and all of our work has to be stopped.That was so annoying.Recently one of my foreign friends also came across this.He was very upset about that cause it took many days to recover completely.Luckily at last it worked fine.I hope the related companies could take some effective measures to prevent such things from happening.Good that you're back! Have a nice day and best regards^_^

Last winter during an ice storm, we lost power for 5 days. It was a major nightmare. Too cold to stay here and too cold for our animals. We packed things up and went to one of our daughter's houses to stay. She has a computer but I was having problems connecting to my server from her computer. Thought I was going to lose my mind. I've checked with our local cable company about DSL. Decided against it so we still have dial-up. Seems that when cable has an issue, the computer system won't work. Have heard many other people also complain about it so I decided not to change anything. Know how you feel about withdrawals. This is my big entertainment and enjoy being online but do spend way too much time on here. Happy New Year, carolbee

Oh I miss my DSL. Where we live now we can't get it so we are stuck with dial up until we can afford HughesNet, which is internet by satellite. It is very expensive but I think once we can afford it it will be worth it because I will be able to get more things done online faster and make more money. Anyway I understand how frustrated you must have been. One time our phone was shut off and I was going nuts not being able to get online. I was definitely having terrible withdraws, lol. Glad things are up and running for you again and let's hope this doesn't happen again. :)

We have had that happen to us, only we have cable and once that happens, everyone gets on line to the cable company and no one can get through. We have two computers, but my husband was reading his audio books and the internet connection is always on, and I was myLotting, then I just could not get through. So I tried to get back to Yahoo on another tab, but could not. I tried another page that I knew the url of, but that did not work. Did the unplugging and plugging, but that did not work. It came on hours later and of course the red light was on for a minute or so. It happened twice, they said there was problems in Ontario, but we are in Manitoba, and I do not know how it could affect us. Now I have to make up for that time.

Isn't it funny how they always blame first the equipment, then the customer before finally realizing that it's their service LOL My limit is 8 days...then it gets to be a not pretty sight. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

lol Only 4 hrs.? Try several months. Like when I couldn't afford a landline. I did end up visiting the local library more frequently but was only allowed on for an hour. Long enough to pay some bills, balance my checkbook, and go thru a few emails.

I do not go crazy because I would be so mad that I just shut off the computer. Perhaps that helps to "train" me to be less clinging and able to let go. I have learnt to live without the computer every night and the weekends, missing the opportunity to chat with friends at mylot. Not sure if it is a blessing afterall.

I had that problem once before. It was the ethernet that went bad so we had to go buy a new one. I enjoy the internet. I enjoy chatting to friends online and meeting new friends and making new friends.

it is a very big error and i think that it is in this case that we realize that we are so dependant to our network.sorry and i wish you the best next time

The power outage a couple weeks ago left me without internet for 4 days. My power was out for four days, but then I went to my parent's house. Well that same day their power went out as well. But there power was restored the next day. However, neither the internet or cable would work. I was more upset about not watching the news about the weather. My dad, who four years ago didn't know anything about the internet, was the one pacing until the internet was fixed.

How do you know the DSL isn't still out Katlady? This could be the phone company playing a trick on you. ... ... ... What too obvious? =P Glad you got your DSL back!

Oh I feel your pain! On the 23rd we had a wind storm here and our cable went out, both internet and TV. I was on the phone with Cablevision so fast... and I HATE talking on the phone but this was an EMERGENCY! I was talking so fast it's amazing that the CS guy understood me. He hadn't gotten any calls from my area yet so he said it might be an isolated problem and that if it was we would have to wait FOUR DAYS for a repair person due to the Christmas holiday! I was literally in a panic! There was nothing else CS could do so I coerced my husband into calling as many neighbors as we could think of and those who had cable were offline too so I calmed down a little... maybe it was a general outage, in which case it would be fixed relatively quickly. I consoled myself with a couple of episodes of "House" on DVD until service was restored. The outage only lasted a little over two hours but during that time I kept thinking... what if it is FOUR DAYS? Can I survive? I am soooo webaddicted LOL!