<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2c14166e-5170-4a77-a9ee-ac99b4da8ecd/602D2216-AAE7-47BC-84C5-CB5BCBDC7AD9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx" href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><H1>Rate your internet dependency</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><SPAN class="categories"> By Lore Sjoberg <EM title=" CD /CD:2009-07-17T12:45:29/DD:/ED:2009-07-17T13:31:43" class="spl">|</EM><SPAN title="17 July 2009 12:29">17 July 2009</SPAN> <EM class="spl">|</EM>Categories: <A title="All the Wired articles in the Technology category" href="http://www.wired.co.uk/search-results.aspx?q=Technology">Technology</A> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.co.uk/img/3AA586B8-C44D-4E59-A5A7-454F02FF087F" alt="Rate your internet dependency" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><STRONG>Stage 1 Internet Dependency</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><STRONG>Stage 2 Internet Dependency</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><STRONG>Stage 3 Internet Dependency</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><STRONG>Stage 4 Internet Dependency</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><P><STRONG>Stage 5 Internet Dependency<BR /></STRONG><BR /><STRONG>Immediate reaction:</STRONG> Get up on the roof and point your homemade wi-fi antenna at the library 15 blocks over. If that doesn’t work, hook your phone up to your laptop. If that doesn’t work, pull out your old 56K modem and log into the dial-up service you pay for every month just in case something like this happens.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><P><STRONG>What you do while waiting for the connection to come back:</STRONG> Write a long, involved blog post about how your ISP is costing you time, money and/or effort because of its incompetence.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-07/17/rate-your-internet-dependency.aspx"><P><STRONG>If it doesn’t come back in an hour:</STRONG> Call your service provider and fire them. If there aren’t any other DSL providers in your area, move.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/602D2216-AAE7-47BC-84C5-CB5BCBDC7AD9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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