Saturday, April 10, 2010

What To Do When Your ISP Is Down?


Every now and then out ISP seem to drop dead for no reason at all.I am a victim as I have BSNL broadband.So what to do? So, here comes the list for things to do during those unimaginable times.


• Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years.
• Re-introduce yourself to your immediate family.
• You mean there's something else to do?
• Steal WiFi from your neighbor.
• Play single player mode.
• Get that kidney transplant you've been putting off.
• Slit your wrists with broken AOL trial disks.
• Start talking to your girlfriend again.
• Call friends to see if their ISP is working.
• Create your own IM bot to converse with.
• Plot out your revenge for the ISP.
• Run in circles, screaming hysterically about the end of the world.
• Open up the ol' pinging .bat file!
• Take a shower and scrape off mold/fern from body.
• Go through your web cache to see if you missed anything.
• Switch to TV.
• Twiddle your thumbs.
• Go to the bathroom (of course!).
• Hang yourself with network cables.
• Load up the zsnes emulator and play chrono trigger and earthbound for hours.
• Smack your modem against the wall.
• Smash your head on the keyboard until it restores.
• Get a black rooster paint a pentacle with his blood and do some invocations.
• Go out to buy another pallet of Mountain Dew for the year ahead.
• Host a LAN game with hopes of people joining.
• Write your lists on paper.
• Bet on horses; wake up the gerbil.
• Go to Reliance World or Login to R-World.
• Pray to the Dark Gods that it will be fixed.
• Try dialing in every 10 minutes, just in case its back up.
• Threaten your ISP with an impeachment vote.
• Dial 100.

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