The technician
I totally forgot to write here about the technician visiting. I've been busy with lots of stuff, been out of town for a while and haven't had a chance to write here. The good news is my phone is working now. I can call out, and I can receive calls. It even seems like the weird stuff has stopped happening. But now I'm getting ahead of myself, let me tell you about the technician.
He came to my house around 3 o'clock on May 10. He was a nice guy, and he tried practically everything to make the phone work. First he changed the modem, because he said that had fixed it at another house. He also complained that this new model modem they're using now has the splitter built in, because then he couldn't test the signal between the splitter and the actual modem. Of course, changing the modem didn't work. He called my land line from his cell phone, and when that didn't work he called in to the ISP/phone company. He actually reported some kind of noise to the company, which he hadn't mentioned to me while he called and I tried to answer the phone. So that kind of worried me. I don't know what the noise was, because I didn't dare ask, but he reported it as some kind of beeping.
He then exchanged my phone plug for a newer model. That didn't help. Finally, he switched my modem back to the model I had when I only had my internet connection through my ISP. Back then, the splitter was seperate. The technician put in a bigger splitter than the one I had before, now it's a black box connected to the power outlet, instead of a tiny white plastic thing that didn't need power.
I was just about to write that it's been working fine ever since, but now my internet connection died on me. Just now, as I'm writing. I can see the modem WAN light blinking. I hope it comes back online so I can post this. I really hate when I'm writing in a textbox on a website and discover that my connection died. Now what? Do I paste the text into Notepad and save it there? OK, wait. It seems to be working now.
Shit. I'm stupid. I just realised that I should have picked up the phone to see if the line was still working when the internet connection was out. Maybe it was the noise again interfering with my line. Maybe I missed something now. Shit, I really need more clues, I need to find out what is going on. I'll try to remember that if the WAN light starts blinking again.
OK, long post again this time, sorry.
He came to my house around 3 o'clock on May 10. He was a nice guy, and he tried practically everything to make the phone work. First he changed the modem, because he said that had fixed it at another house. He also complained that this new model modem they're using now has the splitter built in, because then he couldn't test the signal between the splitter and the actual modem. Of course, changing the modem didn't work. He called my land line from his cell phone, and when that didn't work he called in to the ISP/phone company. He actually reported some kind of noise to the company, which he hadn't mentioned to me while he called and I tried to answer the phone. So that kind of worried me. I don't know what the noise was, because I didn't dare ask, but he reported it as some kind of beeping.
He then exchanged my phone plug for a newer model. That didn't help. Finally, he switched my modem back to the model I had when I only had my internet connection through my ISP. Back then, the splitter was seperate. The technician put in a bigger splitter than the one I had before, now it's a black box connected to the power outlet, instead of a tiny white plastic thing that didn't need power.
I was just about to write that it's been working fine ever since, but now my internet connection died on me. Just now, as I'm writing. I can see the modem WAN light blinking. I hope it comes back online so I can post this. I really hate when I'm writing in a textbox on a website and discover that my connection died. Now what? Do I paste the text into Notepad and save it there? OK, wait. It seems to be working now.
Shit. I'm stupid. I just realised that I should have picked up the phone to see if the line was still working when the internet connection was out. Maybe it was the noise again interfering with my line. Maybe I missed something now. Shit, I really need more clues, I need to find out what is going on. I'll try to remember that if the WAN light starts blinking again.
OK, long post again this time, sorry.
1 Comments:
Interesting... that there is nothing and no-one on the internet to solve this!
Your point about web sites and text boxes saving text is a very good one. Several times I have had some thing go wrong and lose the text and have to type it again. I quite often copy the text before posting just in case.
Browsers (or a plug-in) need to be changed to store this info so it cannot be so easily lost.
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