This has always boggled my mind...

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With any modem involving a "standby" button... and people call in and say "The only light that's lit on my modem is 'standby' and I can't get online... is there an outage, or what's wrong?"

Like seriously... how fucking stupid do you have to be to not be able to put two and two together for that. It's like seeing a sign on a door saying "Push to open" and the person is asking his friends on his cellphone "Hey guys... it says 'push to open'... what am I supposed to do here?"

Seriously... Standby. Try pushing the button that says the exact same thing. Same with the on/off button. If the lights are off... try pushing "on". It's like a light switch, or are these people unfamiliar with those?