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Article #568Re: backup ISP if you don't have a landline phone
From: core
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:02
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:02
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (UTC), nobody@[127.0.0.1] (David W. Tamkin) wrote: >smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote in <j35khu$8k0$1@ftupet.ftupet.com>: > >| How often does your service go out? > >It hasn't in a couple of years, unless it went out briefly while I wasn't >using the Internet connection and while neither of us was using the Comcast >phone line nor watching a cable-fed television. > >| Given that money sounds tight for you, I would either go without for a bit >| or get something that's capable of riding wifi and either stealing a >| neighbor's or head out to Starbucks. Grab one of the $99 Touchpads out >| there right now, a cheap used Android tablet, used iPad 1, something... > >Unsure of finding the concentration and brain cycles to master such a device, >let alone of finding such a device at such a price, I thank you for the >suggestion, but the status quo sounds increasingly appealing. It has, come >to think of it, the advantage that we don't have to stay off the phone when >we're expecting an incoming fax. I'm waiting for them to show up on WOOT for $75.. It's coming, just wait.
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