Contest: Share you funny or harrowing remote access story for a chance to win $100 or a HD Flip Video Recorder (Your Choice)

Posted June 21, 2010, 10:07 am by Kim Francisco

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Kim Francisco

Do you have a remote access story to share?  Perhaps you’ve had to access your network from a strange place?  Or maybe  you have a story about a time when you’ve had a heck of a time accessing your network remotely?  


ANX connects thousands of users to their company networks each day. Our Help Desk Team answers questions working from hotels, airports, commuter trains, the beach and even the opera! Whether you use ANX's award-winning remote access service or someone else's, we want to know where you are when remote work happens.

 

Have you needed to access your corporate networks externally in a pinch? We have too.

 

So we want to know…

 

What was your funniest or most trying remote access experience?  Share it with us, and we will enter you into a drawing for a $100 American Express Gift Card or a HD Flip Video Recorder (your choice)!!

 

CHAT IT UP TO INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING:

  1. Post a story or an image under the comment section of our contest blog post. (counts as  1 entry.)

  2.  Post a story or an image within the contest announcement thread.  (counts as 3 entries.)

    Stuff the ballot box even more by taking these actions:

  3. Once you have added your story on the blog OR in the community thread, tweet about our contest using the following tweet: (counts as 1 entry.)

    “I just shared my remote access story @ANX for a chance to win $100. You should too! (link)”

    OR

  4. Once you have added your story on the blog OR in the community thread, share the contest on your Facebook page and let us know you’ve done so on OUR Facebook page.(counts as 1 entry.)

 

More details:

 

  1. The contest ends on July 21, 2010 at 6:00 EST. 

  2. To enter, you must comment on the blog or community post.

  3. Two entries on each platform (Blog, Community, Facebook, Twitter) per person.

  4. User names will be entered into a drawing to win a $100 American Express Gift card.

  5. Winner will be announced on Twitter and on the Community page  on July 22, 2010.
 
Enter this contest to win a Flip Video HD!
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Comments

  1. Posted July 21, 2010, 5:48 pm by Buddy

    On a business trip to Chicago the hotel I was staying in was being renovated. I couldn't access my network. Somebody at the hotel said they had a place I could access. It was in the hotel's kitchen. I was accessing my network while the staff was busily preparing that might's dinner. garrettsambo@aol.com

  2. Posted July 21, 2010, 5:21 pm by Daniel

    My most difficult experience was trying to login at a hotel when I didn't have wifi or all the right cords to connect

  3. Posted July 21, 2010, 10:58 am by Lisa

    I tweeted http://twitter.com/My3Sons33/status/19082496218

  4. Posted July 21, 2010, 10:54 am by Lisa

    On a business trip, I tried to access my network from the hotel I was staying in for a meeting. The connection was so bad I missed half of the meeting trying to connect & re-connect.

  5. Posted July 20, 2010, 1:48 pm by Louis

    I do remember when wireless networks were fairly new and my home receiver would drop the signal multiple times per session.. It was so annoying that I avoided important tasks on my wireless computer

  6. Posted July 20, 2010, 1:08 pm by Alaina

    I was attempting to connect to my schools network to grab some files to add to my portfolio, however my schools network seems not to like my computer and it took hours before I could get anything.

  7. Posted July 20, 2010, 1:06 pm by Kim

    Great stories!! Thank you for sharing. Good Luck everyone!

  8. Posted July 20, 2010, 3:44 am by Martha

    My funny remote access story was that one time I was helping my friend in KY locate her ipod files on her computer while in NC. I remotely connected to her computer and did this, but then we decided to have a little fun. My friend called her husband into the room and said, "Look! What is wrong with the computer? It's like it's possessed or something! I'm not even touching it!" while I played around opening windows and closed them on the computer for him to see. For an added effect, I opened up notepad & typed, "Hi Nathan." (his name) He was seriously spooked, until he realized his wife was on the phone. Once he knew I was on the other end, he had pieced it all together.

  9. Posted July 19, 2010, 9:08 pm by Leloni

    I was at home not feeling well, but still needed to get a brief typed up, so I was sent the dictation and had to play it outloud on the computer speakers, rewinding each part by hand...it is not a funny story at the time and it truly took me all day to do it, but I was still able to get it done!

  10. Posted July 19, 2010, 2:16 pm by Julie

    I experienced the total nightmare of taking law school exams, and trying to access the network to send by paper at a specific due date/time and the network was down. I had to beg for an extension the next day, thank goodness they relented after much crying!

  11. Posted July 17, 2010, 7:40 am by Andrew

    I have had the bad experience of having the desktop reset due to power failure and then not being able to remote boot it.

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