Pardon us, please, as we are suffering from a bad case of HSDL-LSUL. That is to say, high-speed download, low-speed upload. In other words, my Internet speed is running slower than a snail pulling a 50-pound barbell uphill.
This affliction started gradually and has hit full-tilt over the last week. It is difficult to send e-mails, much less photos or upload a You Tube short-short.
Unfortunately, cures for computer woes are hardly 100 percent unless you decide to chunk yours out a four-story window. After the expected fighting with my computer company, Dell, and my wireless broadband provider, Verizon, I am making scant progress. I will be receiving, hopefully, a replacement USB modem tomorrow from Verizon. It will be my, what, fifth in two years? I haven’t even had the chance to get to the wireless problem with Dell because of a keyboard problem that they will only repair if I ship my laptop in or if they send me the parts and I replace the keyboard myself. Neither will happen.
If the USB doesn’t fix it, I suppose the next step is reinstalling Windows 7, which I really don’t want to do. After all, I received the computer with the system already installed. I just hope sometime soon my broadband is back to some sense of normalcy so I can enjoy it until something else goes wrong with my computer, broadband or both. Hey, I’m a glass is half-full kind of guy. I’m optimistic that within six months I will have another problem to deal with in my never-ending war with technology.
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