Verizon Silence

How much work would you be able to get done in one week without your internet? That’s the question we were trying to deal with at work this week. Starting Monday, Verizon, our only DSL ISP in the area, decided to upgrade their service. Problem is that this required a new modem on our end, as the new service will not work with the old modem. I guess that’s not the problem—but that they didn’t tell us about it, nor send us a new modem. We tried to get a modem locally, but couldn’t. Also, when they mailed it, they did standard shipping, which was to take 3 days.
Well, we got up a couple dial up accounts to at lease be able to get email and process orders to hold us over, otherwise we would pretty well be stuck. It is amazing how dependent we have become on the Internet, and think that most people are the same way these days.
But all in all, our ISP might be called our IDP - internet disservice provider (as I couln’t find an antonym for provider.) That’s what you get with these big companies - they really don’t care about the little guy, because it doesn’t hurt their bottom line.
The good news is that our service should be 2x faster for the same price. But getting there sure is painful!