Impressive

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I don’t know how she did it, but by the time I got home from work last night, Angela had already been on the phone with RoadRunner support and had the modem all ready for me to transport back to their office in exchange for a new one. A short trip to their service center and back, reconnect everything and bing! We have an internet connection again!

I don’t know what sort of sweet talking she had to do to get to Level 3 support and get them to see the bad modem that quickly, but I am impressed!

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • |

    What’s Next on the Ban List, Curtains?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people, are being threatened by some faulty logic. First, it was social networks and online communication, where all sorts of mean behavior was being blamed on anonymity: After people-rating…

  • Backup to Email

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I saw this little utility on Lockergnome today and just had to try it out. It works pretty much as advertised. It automatically filled in the server details for Gmail and Yahoo, but not Hotmail. I could set-up any SMTP server manually though. I could easily right-click any file and use the “backup to email”…

  • Virtualization everywhere

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Yes it seems like every time I turn around there’s something new in this space. Today it’s the preconfigured Virtual Hard Disks available from Microsoft. I wonder, combine this with what I had written about VMWare Converter being able to convert VirtualPC virtual machines on Friends in Tech last week and all the other news…

  • Firefox

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Yes, I’m sure you’ve all seen 100 times this morning that version 1.04 is out, and it fixes the security hole I talked about earlier this week. But have you seen Marc Orchant’s post about it this morning where he also mentions MozBackup? From their site: “MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Mozilla,…

  • FiT happenings

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Just a couple of notes about things going on at Friends in Tech. First, Douglas Welch, host of Career Opportunities, one of my favorite podcasts, got himself on local TV out in L.A. this week. You can download a clip of him explaining the technology behind podcasting here. Secondly, George Starcher has done a fine job of…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)