Oh man, talk about a blast from the past...

I was checking my neighbor's iMac connection because she couldn't get online via dial up. We fixed that and also connected her new HP printer, she's owned it for six months and never been able to get it to work! I had to download the proper driver because she'd lost the installation CD. Well on dial up it took one hour to download, so Boo and I just stared at each other in disbelief and went to lunch. How quickly I'd forgotten the download blues.

I think I've convinced her to dump Earthlink's dial up service and go with our DSL provider. She'll end up paying $10 less monthly for faster service and an excellent DSL connection. I told her I'd connect everything for her, we're talking about someone who couldn't figure out where to connect the phone line for dial up. I'm confident she'll be happy she upgraded when she no longer has to wait an hour for downloads.

We left with her printer printing and her able to get online and check email. I'd wondered why I would email her and it kept bouncing back. Imagine paying $24.95 monthly and being unable to utilize the service? Why she didn't speak up before is a mystery to me.