> Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an April 1st effort to publish genuine essays on unexpected topics.
Honestly, reading "April 1st!", I was expecting this to be one of April's fools but it turned out to be a true and amusing story.
The author was lucky to solve a technical problem in a non-technical way, unlike me!
A decade ago, I had a weird Internet connection issue. The upload speed suddenly dropped to near zero kb/s while the download was alright. I contacted my ISP, and for weeks, they were unable to figure out what was going wrong. I reached out to my neighbor and offered him to pay his Internet bill in exchange for sharing his Wi-Fi with me until my ISP solves my problem, and he kindly agreed. After about three months, my ISP's technical staff was still unable to fix the issue. I gave up, and guess what I did to get around this?! I just moved away to another distant home.
Honestly, reading "April 1st!", I was expecting this to be one of April's fools but it turned out to be a true and amusing story.
The author was lucky to solve a technical problem in a non-technical way, unlike me!
A decade ago, I had a weird Internet connection issue. The upload speed suddenly dropped to near zero kb/s while the download was alright. I contacted my ISP, and for weeks, they were unable to figure out what was going wrong. I reached out to my neighbor and offered him to pay his Internet bill in exchange for sharing his Wi-Fi with me until my ISP solves my problem, and he kindly agreed. After about three months, my ISP's technical staff was still unable to fix the issue. I gave up, and guess what I did to get around this?! I just moved away to another distant home.