Dial-Up for Redundancy
Note: This blog entry is sponsored by LoudLaunch.
I was playing around with my home firewall the other day and I discovered that it has a serial port on it. Upon further examination, I discovered that I could hook an old modem up to it and if my Internet connection ever went down, it would automatically dial out and I would continue to have (slow) Internet access.
I though that this was a pretty cool idea, since I am completely lost without Internet access. Now, I definitely will not be able to run streaming videos this way but at least I can still access my e-mail and go a quick Google search.
I am fortunate enough that my Internet provider give me a free dial up account with my broadband connection. If you are not as fortunate, you can sign up for relatively inexpensive at dial-up service at locally or you could try a new startup company called PCDialup.com.
