Tuesday, July 8, 2003
It's Enough To Make A Grown Man Cry...
Posted by Brad Adrian in "THOUGHT" @ 01:00 AM
I was SO excited recently when T-Mobile decided to let their customers get all the wireless data communication we want for 20 bucks a month. I knew I was going on a trip and was looking forward to really playing with my Pocket PC Phone Edition and gobbling up the megabytes.
My destination, however, was a small corner of Indiana (yep, that place with the corn and soybeans) that is apparently about 87 miles from the nearest T-Mobile/Cingular tower. No data connection. No voice connection. Nothing.
For reasons I won't go into, I had three wireless phones with me with three different carriers: T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. Not ONE of them could pick up a signal while I was in Indiana. Oh, well, I thought I could at least play with my Pocket PC games and try out my new hp2215.
Except...I had let a couple of relatives use my Pocket PCs and their batteries were completely depleted. Hard resets on four Pocket PCs. Oh, well, I thought I could at least have some fun rebuilding the devices.
Except...ActiveSync decided at that precise point in my life to stop working. No partnerships, no connections, and worse yet, no ActiveSync CD to attempt a reinstall. And the best dial-up speed I could get was a scorching 14.4 kbps, so downloading the needed files was out of the question.
Talk about torture! All my wonderful, beautiful toys and precious few ways to use them. I think next year we'll just visit our Hoosier relatives via conference call!
What sob stories about being "disconnected" can YOU share?
My destination, however, was a small corner of Indiana (yep, that place with the corn and soybeans) that is apparently about 87 miles from the nearest T-Mobile/Cingular tower. No data connection. No voice connection. Nothing.
For reasons I won't go into, I had three wireless phones with me with three different carriers: T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint. Not ONE of them could pick up a signal while I was in Indiana. Oh, well, I thought I could at least play with my Pocket PC games and try out my new hp2215.
Except...I had let a couple of relatives use my Pocket PCs and their batteries were completely depleted. Hard resets on four Pocket PCs. Oh, well, I thought I could at least have some fun rebuilding the devices.
Except...ActiveSync decided at that precise point in my life to stop working. No partnerships, no connections, and worse yet, no ActiveSync CD to attempt a reinstall. And the best dial-up speed I could get was a scorching 14.4 kbps, so downloading the needed files was out of the question.
Talk about torture! All my wonderful, beautiful toys and precious few ways to use them. I think next year we'll just visit our Hoosier relatives via conference call!
What sob stories about being "disconnected" can YOU share?
