LOCAL MAN’S INTERNET ACCESS IS "MUCH BETTER NOW"
Pompton Lakes, NJ, January 20 – After several weeks of frustrating problems, Lakeland resident Andrew Wheeler was thrilled to log on to his chosen internet provider on the first try tonight.
“It’s been connecting and just hanging,” Mr. Wheeler complained, “I could stay connected for about two minutes, and then it would cut me off. Sometimes this would happen ten or fifteen times in a row. It was really annoying.”
Other members of the Wheeler household were less affected by the problem.
“I don’t know what he’s doing down there in the first place, and now you tell me he wasn’t even getting to do it?” queried Mrs. Wheeler. “So why did he keep trying if it wasn’t working? I told him to switch IPs, but did he listen to me?”
The youngest member of the household was even more terse. “Push dada. Hello? O-tay. I donn know!”
Informed sources report that Mr. Wheeler has re-installed various versions (ranging from 4.01 to 4.7) of the popular “Netscape Communicator” software package five or six times since Christmas in his attempts to combat this problem. The latest attempt, completed three days ago, seems to have helped.
“Netscape stopped crashing on Monday,” said Mr. Wheeler, “but the connection problems were still continuing, until tonight.”
Mr. Wheeler now intends to get on with his on-line activities, secure in his newly configured software and in his re-gained faith in his IP.
“There are dozens of threads on SDMB that I’ve been missing,” he lamented, “but I can catch up now. Not to mention all of the free porn out there!”
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!