Connecting to internet

My company was generous enough to give me a reliance data card, so that I can work from home. Somehow the request for similar data card by our boss was turned down by his boss.

After a few days I got my broadband, and so there was no reason I should use the slowwww data card. So, I asked the BOSS if he wanted it? He was very happy and readily took that.

The life isn't simple, when you have an idiot as your boss. I had to install the software on his machine and make the data card working. (Yup, he cant do that)

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After a couple of days, he told me that the data card wasnt working at all. It was not getting conected to internet. I checked it and it indeed wasnt connecting.

So I dared call the Reliance call center and the female told me that the connection should be working fine. Then she made me run through numerous checks and none of them solved the problem. Finally she (and me too) gave up.

After a while I started the research and this is what I found ::

Any datacard while connecting to internet, dials a specific number for that ISP, which is set by default when you install the software. This guy went inside the setup at some point and changed the dialling number to his own cell number. So everytime we were trying to dial the internet the call was actually going to his centuries old cellphone with all numbers worn out and screen broken. And as his 3310 wasnt the ISP server the connection wasnt getting established.. Funny huh?