Well, THERE's your problem!

[seattleotaku.livejournal.com]

What you say (to me, because we provide your service at home):

(1) You connect at work via wireless through a neighbor's cable router,
(2) it suddenly stopped working,
(3) you can't go to the neighbor to find out why, and
(4) you want us to fix it.

What you mean:

(1,3) You were stealing bandwidth from your neighbor, and
(2) either the neighbor or the cable provider caught and blocked you.

My solution:

(4) You can use our service at work as well.

No? Okay... Good luck with that.

Oh, and no points for trying the "pout and maybe his answer will change" act. Try it on the neighbor.

Comments

[canray.livejournal.com]

Ah, unsecured networks. The number of people that demanded (DEMANDED mind you!) that I help them set that up... OY!

Then talked about doing their banking. Oh, real bright!

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

We've had a few people call us to tech their stolen wireless connections

[ebtb.livejournal.com]

in some apartment that my friend lives in, their neighbor's idea of securing their wireless network is naming it "GET OFF MY DAMN NETWORK" and still not encrypting it. priceless. I use it to get online with my DS all the time.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

Heh...my brother-in-law STILL does not understand the concept of wireless. He knows he has a wireless card in his laptop, and doesn't understand why he can't connect to the internet (he has DSL, and no, he does not have a WAP).

Apparently at some point, one of his neighbors had an unsecured network and he managed to get himself connected to it. Then it stopped working and he called me to ask me to fix it.

THAT was an interesting conversation...

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Ah, customer wanted magic wand treatment. They all seem to think we're Harry Palms Potter and have a wand up our ass and a telepathic beany decoding their odd grunts and chewing noises.

Had one customer call in four times within an hour about a print server being down.

Yes, we've reported it to the system admins. No, I'm not going to give you their number; they're busy. Sure, go ahead and call Chuck, the guy who comes by your desk. I'm sure he'll be glad to magic the server up and no doubt, will do it much quicker than those lazy server guys. Certainly we understand that printing is very important to you. And to the other 1200 people in your building as well.

Finally, the guy next to me got the same woman. She wanted to check that I had noted that she'd called four times and that I'd put down it was extremely urgent.

[genjutsu-01.livejournal.com]

many an occasion me and my friends have drove around areas like coatbridge/airdrie/glasgow and found a multitude of wireless networks with which to do dirty deeds

such as the heinous act of changing the SSID to ....... I AM GAY HAHAHA

ahhh great fun

[jecook]

Heh. I set up a friend's wireless network last week, and I set the security up as high as it would go. it's SSID? "lugnuts". ::snicker::

You were stealing bandwidth from your neighbor

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

if the access point is not secure, then it is really not stealing