It’s Been a Hard(ware) Week

Wow, what a strange set of days it has been.

As many of you know, I spent the latter part of last week and half of this week without Internet access at home.  That in and of itself wasn’t necessarily bad since my schedule last week was one of the more hectic ones in recent history.  On Tuesday, as I’ve addressed in another post, I was able to get my home back online by purchasing a shiny new Linksys 802.11g router that kind of looks like a stealth bomber.  And you’ll be proud to know I didn’t get it from Best Buy!  Ha ha!

On Wednesday, a place of business I’ve been doing some consulting work for was having connection problems as well and after doing some troubleshooting, we discovered that — lo and behold — their router was malfunctioning too.  So, back to ComputersPlus to buy the exact same router from the exact same salesperson.  Deja vu.

Thursdays are my Holy Trinity Lutheran School days, and when I arrived at 7:45 this morning, I was immediately greeted with the news that the Internet had been down for 3 days.  Ugh.  Double-ugh since what I had planned on teaching relied on Internet usage.  So, I walked down to the mechanical room where our networking hardware is located and … well, I’m sure you can guess.  Go ahead and try.

Actually, you’re wrong.  This time it was the cable modem — it was flashing green lights at me at a pretty regular pace.  I wanted to know what those green lights flashing that way meant, but since I very well couldn’t do an Internet seach on it, I was just going to have to settle on knowing that the cable modem, in general, wasn’t working.

I’m posting this from Holy Trinity now, Insight came out and promptly replaced the modem (apparently they refused to yesterday) and now the Internet has been restored to every place I work.  Woohoo!