Comments on: What Are You Doing When Your Internet Connection Is Down?

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:55:15 +0000

Read a book, play with my little boy, work. I love the internet and there were times when I couldn’t be torn from it; but I can manage to be productive without it (I’m spending less and less time online anyway).

By: Vijeesh

Vijeesh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:37:25 +0000

Time to those read free programming ebooks…I usually do that even when my internet connection is working, but when it does go down, I type and read and eat code..

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:15:49 +0000

you need a dual-wan router to keep 100% internet uptime. :)

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:34:29 +0000

Besides surfing, I’d bet Paul is an unconditional observer of life :) ^^

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:41:49 +0000

Such thing happen to me very rare, power cut is the prob for me…. I just came here to see what other people do when there is a fault in internet connection.

By: MK

MK — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:20:56 +0000

Reading, mostly. I love to read books, but the Internet is keeping me from it. I also do some exercises, flexing and stretching muscles in my room.

The Internet is, no doubt, the most wonderful thing. But there’s more to life than just RSS, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, and blog entries ^^

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:23:34 +0000

Ooooo, I can do too many things to describe.

Read, write, sort downloaded software, music and video, play games, watch films them all, clean PC…

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:08:11 +0000

I do have other interests than the internet. Most likely you’d hear me playing the piano (classical).

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:36:09 +0000

Martin, nice thing in a way that your internet connection happened to be disturbed, I think it reminded us that there is a life before and after web surfing. It reminded me, anyway !

By: gary

gary — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:00:28 +0000

It’s never ever happened to me since I started internetting (about 10 years ago). Here in south-east England, power cuts are much more frequent than internet outages. I also have a data plan on my mobile, so could just use that as a modem as I do on the train (very slowas i do not have 3g. GPRS over EDGE is not all it’s cracked up to be…)

I’m with Angelo above, just sitting around playing guitar is a nice relaxing way to use up some down-time. I’d probably be defragging in the background, and if I get bored enough I would run WinDirStat, to try and clean up my HD space a little. If I got reaaly bored, I might think of organising my MP3s or anime, that “unsorted” folder is getting far too big.

I’m trying to learn Japanese too, but it’s difficult as I’m very lazy. I have Rosetta Stone free from my employer, but I’m finding it increasingly hard to muster up the motivation to complete the lessons.

So I’ll mainly just watch anime. That’s my excuse, I’m studying the language!

By: garbanzo

garbanzo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:13:35 +0000

I tweak my system. Samurize, DOpus, Foobar, shell, visual style… there’s always something to adjust!

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:44:53 +0000

I return to fundamental questions such as where do I come from, where am I, what am I leading to ? I have a strange feeling of changing from one time dimension to another, like when putting my feet on the ground after a very long voyage (voyage, not trip!) by train or plane. I feel destabilized, frustrated, same as without my dear tobacco.
That’s when I start catching up things left aside ;) (Un)fortunately, my ISP is very reliable.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:58:34 +0000

did you try to not breath for a few hours? Well, it’s what happens to me when my connection’s down.

By: Angelo R.

Angelo R. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:49:23 +0000

I normally resort to play guitar. Normally when I’m just relaxing on the internet I play guitar at the same time, but when the net goes down, I can actually focus on learning new songs and getting better.

Although, now I’ve started going out. It’s strange.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:58:12 +0000

Luckily my neighbour is on a different ISP, and does not secure her wifi :) You could say that I have redundant network connections.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:47:49 +0000

Reading. I am actually not using Internet much after completing evening RSS-torrents-blog routine.

By: Obi-Wahn

Obi-Wahn — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:42:57 +0000

Thankfully, my ISP was the last 8 Years or so apx. 3 Hours down.
But if my Connection breaks down, I’m frustrated, when I’m working on something on the Net. But after 5 minutes, I calm down, and do some house cleaning, work in the garden or walk arround the corner and go into the caffe.
But my favourite choise of work is working in the garden. Usually, the grass in the garden is 1 meter high, and some other bushes has to be cut. favourite tool: my machete :D

that’s fun folks.

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:35:26 +0000

Besides getting extremely frustrated, I usually end up playing games or like you run maintenance activities on my computer.

Sometimes, I work on any posts that can be composed offline.

By: b1k3r4ck

b1k3r4ck — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:22:33 +0000

I’m with Yogi. It’s that or a panic attack! Can’t surf, can’t play WoW …..

OMG fix the tubes!!

By: tech_and_life

tech_and_life — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:15:32 +0000

Thankfully it isn’t a big problem for me. My ISP in the UK isn’t often down. When it happens I can work offline on documents, draft a new post, do housekeeping on my hard drive (delete old folders, run CCleaner, run a backup) or just have a break and listen to podcasts on my mp3 player.