January 21, 2002
I woke up extra


I woke up extra early this morning. I wasn’t sure why.

But as it turns out, I stirred at about the same time that our ADSL provider was cutting off our connection. They do this every few months to all their normal customers. Now we have a new IP address for the next couple of months.

For us, it’s not a big deal—we have to restart the connection and update a few settings and then we can get on with what we usually do. For a business, changing an IP address suddenly and out of the blue is a disaster and by cutting the connection, the ADSL provider ensures that businesses pony up the exorbitant fees for continuous, static IP addresses. A clever strategy.

Anyway, waking up at the same time the connection was cut makes me wonder if I’m supernaturally in tune with my Internet connectivity.

Posted by kuri at January 21, 2002 09:34 AM

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