Bless the gods of all things digital, I have an Internet connection!
After a false-start on Tuesday, the nice Time-Warner man came today and gave me a cable modem. No more flaky open wireless signals from the neighbours for me. I think I’ll download something right now… there, see how fast that was?
The Vonage box had come in the mail a few days ago, so I have a phone at home as well. We have a number in Vancouver, Seattle, and Chapel Hill, so pretty much everybody can phone us with a local call. I’m not going to post the numbers, but drop an email if you want them.
On the other hand, I no longer have any excuse for not getting down to work. I am still on the payroll for the summer, after all. I guess I’ll have to start feeling guilty about not working tomorrow.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
So if I call the Van #, it’s no long distance charge to me?
May 13th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Yup, that’s the deal. It goes to some switch in Van, fired across the Internet to my cable modem, and a magic box (that the phone and Ethernet plug in to) makes the phone ring.
We have numbers in Chapel Hill, Vancouver, and Seattle.