It's been a while since my last post and it is just now that I have got hold of my laptop. It has been a busy month after the wrath of Ondoy most especially during the weekend. We have fixed all our things and thrown away all those that deemed useless to us. Our small internet shop was also affected when our service provider was unable to serve us up until now. It was just week when Globelines showed signs of life when the dial tone was again present and the DSL line was a bit alive. Until just now it went dead on us again without a dial tone and our beloved DSL internet connection. We have been calling their service hotline ever since the flood water went away and it's really hard to get past those very long announcements and voice promts. They always say that they are doing their best to restore all broken lines and will be done before November 30, 2009. But the damage has already been done, our internet shop suffered major losses just like the ongoing global economic downturn. That is why I opted for other sources of internet connection like Sky Broadband and PLDT. Unluckily neither of them were offering services in our area. Good thing that there was SUN Wireless Broadband that was just hanging around. I thought that it was not possible to have a USB wireless modem to become the internet source of our shop until I discovered the power of ICS or Internet Connection Sharing built-in Windows 7. It is also available in Windows 2000, XP and Vista but our main server PC was running on Windows 7 so it was an opportunity for me to learn this old technique when dial-ups were still dominant. And the good thing is that SUN offers a cheaper unlimited data service compared to Smart and Globe. Also SUN's 3G service is quite abundant in our area even in the deepest parts of our house, the comfort room. Although it offers speeds up to 2Mbps, having it shared to more than 10 PCs makes it's status to just being a back-up rather than the main internet provider. I am still hoping that Globe will fully restore their system before I finally make the decision to let them go and search for another permanent provider.
