I have moved houses last weekend, and although I am happier for finding a house which was only a block away from my children’s school and this entails an increase in savings since the children won’t have to take the short tricycle drive to the school everyday now, my webwork was halted by absence of internet connection. I was so excited about the move that I forgot to consider my DSL connection.  Moving not only meant moving...

We do not have a television.  I have thought of buying one, but decided on buying a PC instead.  The children obviously liked the PC as I bought it fully-loaded with games.  Not only that, since I got Globe Broadband, our internet life has never been this good.  Now, I can work full time as a freelance webworker in oDesk and we also have loads of information at the tip of our fingers– oh, the advantages of the internet is countless. I...

  Earlier today my daughter suddenly screamed that the internet was no longer working.  I asked her to make sure that the Airport Switch in the Macbook is “ON.”  She said the “rainbow” was missing.  After her loud scream, Freida who was using the other PC in the other room screamed and she said there was something wrong with her PC too.  I looked at the PC and saw that there indeed was no connection.  I reseted the...

My Globe Broadband is fried again! Damn. Am currently using my dial up right now to blog and to do some freelance work. I thought that I wouldn’t have this kind of connectivity problem with Globe but yesterday, it hiccupped and I lost connection again. This is simply unthinkable for me since I am now relying on my connection to do my work… Damn, Globe!!!

After Smart has turned down my location TWICE, I actually thought I am stuck in dial-up world or I should start considering moving out of my area and move somewhere where hardwire DSL is available.  Being a freelance writer and VA, my job depended on reliable internet connection.  Not only that, while working, another program monitoring my progress has to run simultaneously in order for my buyer to see my progress.  Screen snapshots as well...