said by recneps :

Well, this place is a forum. If you're not having problems, most people don't come here. So of course you're only gonna hear (mostly) bad things, because there's only a few people with no life who come here regularly to help out others (myself included )

said by Angelo_ :

problem is when you go over to their place you need to charge money.. and many people expect free work etc etc.

it is a bad idea to seek someone to do house visits from a web site.

we try to help them as much as we can but some issues really do require someone to walk them through it. I think how dslr operates is just fine!

said by Angelo_ :

when you do work your always will be responsible free or whatnot...

gas isn't cheap also these days... froom my experience people who can be walked easily on the phone can also follow directions just as easily from a web site.

said by vmctec :

That's why I said we need a list of volunteers by location, so that the distance one would travel is minimal. As for the responsibility - this is volunteer help and in no way does it mean you'll be forced to help a particular guy for the rest of your life . And type of help I had in mind is as follows: I've helped about 5 guys in last month by simply recommending TSI to them.

The last guy has no knowledge of networking so what I did is the following:
1. bought him a cable modem,
2. Called savvys to give them all the technical details of the new customer,
3 gave them this guy's cell number so that they could call him and get his credit card #,
4. on Friday I will go to his place and hook up the modem/router to his home computer.
Time spent so far - close to an hour. Oh, and the guys is still using dial-up and he was thingking of getting DSL for the last 4 months but didn't know where to start since his only call to Bell resulted in them trying to force him in a 2-year contract.

Am I really loosing my shirt on this?

said by daboom :

I would recommend a another column next to the name/nick with their particular area of expertise.