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The Internet is for...
Feb. 26th, 2014 09:39 amMany things besides the obvious lyric from Avenue Q.
Yesterday ours vanished on us at a rather inopportune time since Peter had finished up a syllabus for a course he is teaching on Comic Experience. (For more information on that click here. It should be a very informative course.)
We went through the usual phone rigmarole about sending signals to the DSL line and all the rest. I had a checklist of all the things I had done before calling them so I could tell them honestly that I had done everything before calling. Once they did a second line test, they agreed that it was something that we needed a technician for. The problem was a very old phone line connecter that was no longer connecting. It was a simple swap of the box and the magical Internet was back.
Props to the technician who listened to what I had done already and believed me when I told them that I believed the problem was at one point in the system.
The phone line never went out so that was good. We send short emails with the iPad and our phones. There was a “stone knives and bearskins” comment at some point but we muddled through it.
Now we are back and happy to be so. It is amazing how much we use the Internet during the day for various things.
I am grateful that I got a technician who listened to the information I had for them when they came to fix the DSL.
Yesterday ours vanished on us at a rather inopportune time since Peter had finished up a syllabus for a course he is teaching on Comic Experience. (For more information on that click here. It should be a very informative course.)
We went through the usual phone rigmarole about sending signals to the DSL line and all the rest. I had a checklist of all the things I had done before calling them so I could tell them honestly that I had done everything before calling. Once they did a second line test, they agreed that it was something that we needed a technician for. The problem was a very old phone line connecter that was no longer connecting. It was a simple swap of the box and the magical Internet was back.
Props to the technician who listened to what I had done already and believed me when I told them that I believed the problem was at one point in the system.
The phone line never went out so that was good. We send short emails with the iPad and our phones. There was a “stone knives and bearskins” comment at some point but we muddled through it.
Now we are back and happy to be so. It is amazing how much we use the Internet during the day for various things.
I am grateful that I got a technician who listened to the information I had for them when they came to fix the DSL.
