[ale] just a note about Atlantic Nexus

[Jim Kinney]

Nice! :-)

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> well, we got hit by a nice BIG storm last night. I was watching TV (
> plugged into an UPS) and I heard a very LOUD BOOM!!!! I mean NEARBY &
> BIG. when the picture finally garbled on my TV from DirecTV lack of
> signal, I went to the PC to look up wsb weather. nada, no DSL. PC is
> behind APC UPS, and dialtone goes through APC UPS. Later Milt from atnex
> said NOT to put the dialtone through the APC it degrades the signal..
> anyway, I figured it was the storm hit the main box & forgot about it.
> about 7:45pm ( right at the END of a THRILLER movie right before the bad
> guy gets it!!) Milt from Atlantic Nexus calls ME to ask about my DSL. He
> was getting no signal.. We played with it for a few, then he had me plug
> in my OLD modem & it synced up.. so my ADSL modem got fried. It is
> plugged into an APC UPS & the dialtone went through it too. We got me up
> & going with the old modem & he is shipping me a replacement ADSL modem
> today. He even remembered that my Linksys router hung off the ADLS modem
> for wireless was running DD-WRT !
> THIS is why I got business-class service & got it from Atlantic Nexus (
> he calls it net2atlanta.com, the business side).
>
> I just wanted to pass along a feel-good story after a bad night..
> and we got 0.86 inches of rain in about an hour..
> YMMV
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
>
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