said by vmctec
: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.
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?
not bad at all =p