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When the Internet Goes Down... What do you do?
                                              When the Internet Goes Down... What do you do?
With the "buyout" of Media Com by Morris Broadband came an unexpected technical fiasco in Western North Carolina last week. Without notice, 40,000 or more business entities lost internet service! Normally we see this type of outage on a regular basis and it only lasts for a few minutes or hours at the most, but not this time. Minutes turned into hours, and hours into days, 5 days to be exact! Now, as a Realtor in the New World Paradigm, internet access is a "must" in order to do business.  We email, we search, we blog, we train, we attend webinars, we prospect, we communicate with our colleagues, we send contracts via the web, we access our MLS, we do almost everything on the INTERNET! Not to mention that our customers find US on the web and when our service is down.. our RAPID RESPONSE to them is TURNED OFF... bye bye Customer!   Frustrations and tempers reached a boiling point in WNC last week as this seemingly momentary outage turned into days... So what to do? Thank God for capitalism and competition! I got on the phone and called a local Franklin NC  company called D-NET and ... more

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