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Weird start to the day
Nov. 16th, 2006 08:38 amThe phone woke me up this morning... just a little before I would have woken up anyway (my full spectrum light alarm had just barely come on), but it was enough to *really* confuse me. I was convinced that I'd woken up earlier, taken a shower and had fallen back to sleep... despite the fact that my hair was definitely not wet. By the time I got to the phone, Rackham had already answered... which was my first clue that it was earlier than I thought. I think it wouldn't have been so confusing, except that there's actual real blue sky outside today! Complete with actual real sunshine. And yes, this has been rare enough lately to inspire confusion first thing in the morning!
I stumbled downstairs to the computer, where I discovered Rackham looking decidedly not happy. Turns out our internet connection has been going down approximately every five and a half minutes since around midnight last night. At least that explains a few things... Rackham and I were playing on a MMORPG with some friends last night when our connection died. It came back up in fairly short order, so we didn't think anything of it. Later, after I'd had a chance to watch last night's episode of Bones, I logged into LJ on my laptop to see what people on my flist had to say about it, and just thought that LJ was being super-flaky. Turns out... not so much.
Rackham did some troubleshooting on this end, contacted our ISP who checked things from their end... and, unfortunately, the problem looks like it's with the line somewhere between the us and the ISP. This is a Bad ThingTM because we have our DSL through Covad, but the lines are owned by Verizon. They're required by law to do things like running line diagnostics within four hours of a call, but I suspect they'll be taking all four of those hours to do it, since we're technically not their customer. Even worse, we just had those nasty winds yesterday, which means they're probably busy fixing real problems (yes, even I have to admit that someone with no phone service at all is a bit more urgent than our flaky DSL :-p).
On the plus side, at least we have a connection, even if it dies every five minutes or so. On the down side... it means I can only do things online that take less than about three minutes (since it takes awhile for things to reset) and because of the errors on the line, even when we do have a connection, it's incredibly slow. Blech.
I stumbled downstairs to the computer, where I discovered Rackham looking decidedly not happy. Turns out our internet connection has been going down approximately every five and a half minutes since around midnight last night. At least that explains a few things... Rackham and I were playing on a MMORPG with some friends last night when our connection died. It came back up in fairly short order, so we didn't think anything of it. Later, after I'd had a chance to watch last night's episode of Bones, I logged into LJ on my laptop to see what people on my flist had to say about it, and just thought that LJ was being super-flaky. Turns out... not so much.
Rackham did some troubleshooting on this end, contacted our ISP who checked things from their end... and, unfortunately, the problem looks like it's with the line somewhere between the us and the ISP. This is a Bad ThingTM because we have our DSL through Covad, but the lines are owned by Verizon. They're required by law to do things like running line diagnostics within four hours of a call, but I suspect they'll be taking all four of those hours to do it, since we're technically not their customer. Even worse, we just had those nasty winds yesterday, which means they're probably busy fixing real problems (yes, even I have to admit that someone with no phone service at all is a bit more urgent than our flaky DSL :-p).
On the plus side, at least we have a connection, even if it dies every five minutes or so. On the down side... it means I can only do things online that take less than about three minutes (since it takes awhile for things to reset) and because of the errors on the line, even when we do have a connection, it's incredibly slow. Blech.
