{"id":315,"date":"2002-05-09T14:21:43","date_gmt":"2002-05-09T19:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2002-05-09T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2002-05-09T19:21:43","slug":"dsl-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"DSL, once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, I am just testing my blogThis<\/i> thingy with Movabletype<\/a>.  I’m doing it while checking my DSL status.  Yes indeedy, boys and girls, I have succummed again to the enticements of manymanybits.  Last time it was Megapath who fed my addiction?or, rather, was promising to when I ran out of cash.  In all fairness, they would have been my selection again, …except they never answered the e-mail I wrote them last week.  This seems unlike them<\/a>.  I am glad though, because I was undecided (can you believe it; me?  undecided?) between Megapath<\/a> (read: fantastic customer service, fantastically expensive), and Covad<\/a>?slightly cheaper, slightly less renowned for customer service, but, get this, they responded!  Hah!<\/p>\n

Megapath would do well to allow ordering online.  What the hell, their best prospects for selling an ‘always-on’ connection is to people with Social Anxiety Disorder who cringe at the thought of using a telephone for anything other than a modem connection.  On May 6, I ordered online from Covad.  The phone company confirmed the data line on May 9.  Three days, and I have not spoken to a person.  Now, you may think that is not a good thing, to have no live contact with a person.  But, sadly, it’s the way I like it.<\/p>\n

We shall see how long it takes them to get the DSL router, cables and software to me.  I think if I had all that stuff today, I could be connected and avoiding human contact at a rate of about a megabit per second.  <\/p>\n

Sad, isn’t it?  I can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, I am just testing my blogThis thingy with Movabletype.  I’m doing it while checking my DSL status.  Yes indeedy, boys and girls, I have succummed again to the enticements of manymanybits.  Last time it was Megapath who fed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,29,614],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anxiety-disorder","tag-dsl","tag-dsl-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}