Pat’s Point of View

I use an iBurst card in my laptop for mobile "broadband", but as anyone who does so will tell you, it’s so unreliable! I don’t know if it’s the card itself or the ISP we use, Chilli, but it’s almost intolerable and a bit of an inside joke at our office. Funny enough, the advertising slogan for iBurst is "It just works" (implying simplicity and reliability wouldn’t you say?), but this should be "It just works" (as in it barely works at all).

Today I’m on-site at a clients office, and of course connectivity is an issue. I’ve tried moving the laptop around the room every few minutes, which usually prompts it into action, but that got old really quickly. Now I’ve taken to stroking its little antenna which seems to work just as well. See instructional photo to the left, for the correct technique.

This is best combined with some soft banter and gentle encouragement. I can see the movie poster now: Robert Redford in The WiMAX Whisperer.

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