# Does anyone else here get Panic Attacks when their Net shuts down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472 "2000-03-08T17:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jayburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jayburner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayburner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/1 "2000-03-08T17:25:00Z")
I use a cable modem…and sometimes my internet connection shuts down…I get all irritable and break out in cold sweats…I was wondering If i’m alone with this condition? ---
**Author:** ![SingleDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SingleDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleDad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/2 "2000-03-08T17:27:00Z")
You’re not alone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/3 "2000-03-08T17:37:00Z")
**Jay** , **Jay** , **Jay** , what are we going to _do_ with you. Survey-style questions belong in MPSIMS. Here, I’ll show you. **Comments on Cecil’s Columns** : I read Cecil’s old column on bandwidth (include link here) and wanted to update it (blah blah blah) **About This Message Board** : Ever since I got my cable modem, I never get any “pink” folders, just yellow ones. (&ct. &ct.) **General Questions** : What is the outage rate of cable modems? Is DSL more reliable? What about security issues? **MPSIMS** : What you posted. **BBQ Pit** : My \*@&#&@ Cable Modem went out again! What am I paying those &#%~%#s $50 a month for, anyway? **Comments on Mailbag Answers** : I have to disagree with the mailbag answer about two-way interactive cable systems (include link here). The truth is (yada yada yada) **Great Debates** : The Ethics of Cable Modems. _I’m kidding!_ Cable company v. Phone company: Who is more evil? ## Please try to keep this in mind when opening a thread in the future. [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![jayburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jayburner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayburner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/4 "2000-03-08T17:42:00Z")
I feel like a dope now…i’m learning, honest…I will be a doper yet… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/5 "2000-03-08T17:53:00Z")
Manhattan, not to suck up or anything, but your post left me in tears, I was laughing so hard 🙂 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![jayburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jayburner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayburner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/6 "2000-03-08T17:55:00Z")
I get it now…i’m the butt of joke here… ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/7 "2000-03-08T17:58:00Z")
When I got home yesterday I went to turn the computer on and **there was no computer!** I had sent it out the day before for repairs. I started looking around me wondering what I was going to do. Now, I wonder if it will get easier or harder over the next nine days while it is gone… ☹ * * * “Don’t bother to pack your bags, Or your map. We won’t need them where we’re goin’, We’re goin’ where the wind is blowin’.” ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/8 "2000-03-09T06:04:00Z")
No, **Jay** , not the butt of a joke. But you _did_ start 11 topics in GQ, of which 9 got moved. You _were_ the recipient of your very own Pit thread as a result of that. You _promised_ to shape up. Those three things, plus the fact that I feel entitled to have a little bit of fun before engaging in the tedious and annoying process of moving a thread, inspired me to write the little missive above. ## No joke, and no hard feelings. _Just learn where the threads go_. [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![jayburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jayburner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayburner)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-here-get-panic-attacks-when-their-net-shuts-down/14472/9 "2000-03-09T06:06:00Z")
thats cool Manhattan…I don’t hold grudges…my last post was really an honest mistake…I was wondering if it was real condition…internet withdrawal…I think I should of phrased it better…anyways…back to my beers 🙂