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beowabbitWell, today was pretty awful. No net when I got up, so I got on the phone with Speakeasy, and was on the phone with them for a long time. Got bumped up to second-level tech support, and they called in Covad for a conference call. After much more ado than this, we decided that my DSL modem was fried.
Naturally, it was just out of warranty. (And I own it, it's not leased.)
So I drove all around Boston looking for one. I know I've seen them on store shelves before, but I couldn't find one.
Posted to Suspects about it. Since I had net at that point, if intermittent, I didn't think to give an alternate contact address. (For the next few days, it might be a good idea to Cc: jay at ccs.neu.edu when sending me mail.) Then net died altogether, and power-cycling the modem didn't help. So I drove to work to get net so I could figure out how to get dialup to Speakeasy. Unfortunately, I had taken my work keys out of my pouch before Baitcon, and when I got to work I discovered I had not yet put them back. So I couldn't get in the building. I was also starting to realize that I had not had anything to eat yet today (this is about 9:30). So I had a steak (with bleu cheese, the only good thing about tonight :-) and I feel a lot better.
When I got home, I power-cycled the modem, and mirabile visu got net! So now I'm posting this, and I was able to get a couple hopeful replies from people who might have DSL modems I can use (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5250 or 5251s). So hopefully this situation will only last another day or so, or maybe with some luck even less than that.
I am wiped out. Drove home from Baitcon pretty late last night, remember.
And there's other bad news in my life, but that'll be another posting.
Naturally, it was just out of warranty. (And I own it, it's not leased.)
So I drove all around Boston looking for one. I know I've seen them on store shelves before, but I couldn't find one.
Posted to Suspects about it. Since I had net at that point, if intermittent, I didn't think to give an alternate contact address. (For the next few days, it might be a good idea to Cc: jay at ccs.neu.edu when sending me mail.) Then net died altogether, and power-cycling the modem didn't help. So I drove to work to get net so I could figure out how to get dialup to Speakeasy. Unfortunately, I had taken my work keys out of my pouch before Baitcon, and when I got to work I discovered I had not yet put them back. So I couldn't get in the building. I was also starting to realize that I had not had anything to eat yet today (this is about 9:30). So I had a steak (with bleu cheese, the only good thing about tonight :-) and I feel a lot better.
When I got home, I power-cycled the modem, and mirabile visu got net! So now I'm posting this, and I was able to get a couple hopeful replies from people who might have DSL modems I can use (Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5250 or 5251s). So hopefully this situation will only last another day or so, or maybe with some luck even less than that.
I am wiped out. Drove home from Baitcon pretty late last night, remember.
And there's other bad news in my life, but that'll be another posting.
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Date: 2003-06-23 04:11 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-24 21:46 (UTC)i love blue cheese too--that definitely would have helped. :)
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Date: 2003-06-25 11:40 (UTC)