Too Detached: No Internet Options

So this week, I had to move from Ottawa to London, Ontario, and to say it was uneventful would be laughable. So many problems popped up, including not getting my Internet on time. Waiting for my access made me think about a few things. I would love to get a cellular card for my laptop, so that I could go ahead and connect from anywhere I need to. I went to Telus, to see what options they had, and there is no such thing as cheap data access when using the cellular networks.

The card alone would cost me nearly $300 Canadian, plus an access fee of $60 a month for a whole thirty megabytes a month. If you know anything about sizes of digital information, thirty megabytes is not much at all. Almost every day I use more than that, so spreading it over a month would be difficult to say the least.

The next thing was dealing with the different Internet companies in the new area, do I go with Rogers, or Bell, or Cogeco? Some are through DSL, and others through coaxial cable, like cable television.

The prices on each of them are pretty similar, but Rogers was the company I had in Ottawa, and so I transferred my service to my new apartment in London. Unfortunately, you have to give them plenty of notice, and so I have to wait until October 3rd before I can get back on the information superhighway.

It is one thing to chose to not be connected, but completely another to be forced off the Internet. I find myself almost craving a fix. Like a drug, being disconnected from a service I have spent more than eight hours a day on for the last few years, is almost like a form of punishment, much like being in prisoned in my own little local world.

I will be very happy to get back on line, and next time, I am going to plan things out a little better so that there is no service interruption. Here is hoping everything goes well tomorrow.

Update: Everything went well, and I am on my laptop via wireless from my new connection at home, but I still wish that I had a cellular wireless data card so that I could have kept up on my e-mails. Thankfully, I did not miss anything important.

Has anyone out there tried a cell phone connection for their laptop? Was it any good?

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