I finally discovered one advantage of dial-up. We had a three hour power outage last night and I was still able to surf. Cordless phones don’t work. No mobile service reaches the house either. But a fully charged laptop and a phone line did the trick.
I just discovered that I can hook an external serial modem up to my wireless router. It is supposed to function as a back-up if broadband fails. Hopefully it will function as a wireless dial-up router so we don’t have to sit corded to the office desk!
I put out a message at work to see if anyone has a spare serial modem. Having a wireless dial-up connection is pretty silly. Having to buy an external serial modem in 2007 is ridiculous.
2 responses so far ↓
1 soupenvy // 12 Jan 2007 at 16:37
I forget what a modem looks like, I guess they don’t have to be plugged in though?
2 verticalbones // 12 Jan 2007 at 16:58
Yeah, my super-advanced wireless dial-up network isn’t going to work if the power goes out. I have gotten two replies on modems bound for the rubbish heap here at work.
My MacBook PRO doesn’t even have an internal modem. However, Lisa’s 12″ PowerBook does.
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