Back Online (Mostly)
Published March 4, 2007 by CabledSheep
I have the misfortune of using a local ISP that was evicted from their office on February 16th due to some sort of dispute with their landlord. Unfortunately, that was a few days before I left for a 2-week cruise. We hoped that the service would be back in place by the time we got home. And it was, sort of. The company is back online, but our DSL modem won’t connect. And of course, there aren’t any engineers working on the weekends to help solve the problem. And even when the engineers are back, who knows how long it will take to figure out the problem. It’s an old DSL modem with its own scripting language. Could be ugly.
Both my husband and I rely heavily on the Internet - email, web page support, etc. So we’ve got tons and tons of work piling up. We were running over to our neighbor’s house to use his computer to connect and take care of urgent email, but that was getting to be a pain. Fortunately, the light finally dawned last night, and I realized that since the problem was just our DSL modem, we should still be able to use the dial-up connection. Not that either of us has used a dial-up connection for years, and in fact, my computer didn’t even have a modem. But we got my husband’s computer connected okay, and once we made sure it worked, he found an extra modem in one of our many boxes of spare computer parts - so in 10 minutes, my computer was set up to go too.
Of course, only one of us can be connected at a time… so now the battle begins!
Hopefully I’ll be getting caught up with my postings soon.
Filed under Venting
Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
Oh dear. I’ve been following the A*Net problem and happy I’m with Xm***ion. Sorry for you.
Hope you had a wunnerful cruise.
Wow, that’s annoying!
We, too, have boxes of spare computer stuff in the basement, but the difference is I have no idea what all that stuff is. I mean, I know what a modem is, but I wouldn’t recognize it if it bit me on the ankle.