I've been having connection problems with New Delly in my dark basement lair. So if I disappear for a few days, it's not because Hick finally did me in. Of course, I'm still pretty sure he's trying to kill me...
There's no pattern to my disconnection. I get the RED X in my little connection icon, not the yellow triangle. New Delly tells me there's an ethernet cable not connected, but long-distance Genius thinks it's the router, because New Delly is too dumb to tell me the difference in a router problem and an ethernet cable problem. He recommended a deal on ethernet cable, which he ran many yards of when he set up our home network. Hick is ethernet capable, so we will eventually get to the bottom of the problem.
The key word there is EVENTUALLY.
In the meantime, HIPPIE has been (mostly) working upstairs. So there's that. He runs on wifi, not on wire. But then again, he also disconnects occasionally. If I was a doctor of computer internet connections, I would refer both HIPPIE and New Delly to a specialist. The specialist who happens to live in Kansas City, and can't make a house call.
I only bring this up so my vast readership of loyal VAL-ies will not call the police to report a murder. Can't have you all crying WOLF!
There's a chance my service and your time-wasting won't be interrupted. But I just spent 2.5 hours getting connected (Wednesday night). And I still couldn't replicate the process. Last thing I remember is plugging two phone-cable-like wires into different slots on the router. Then being surprised when after 15 minutes of off-and-on connection, New Delly finally loaded a page.
Computers were given to us to make our lives simpler.
ReplyDeleteBUT THEY DON'T, DAGNAB IT!
They make my life simpler until SOMETHING CHANGES! I swear, I'd rather have kids cutting across my lawn to shake a fist at, than have to learn a new method for getting my internet fix.
DeleteI still haven't quite recovered from replacing dear departed SHIBA with HIPPIE in the laptop department.
Th t incon is an y c n b rea ly a no ing. I occa onally h ve con ct v y iss es to .
ReplyDeleteI'd probably spill my paint if I was doing cave wall writing. It's always something.
DeleteMy battles with my computer sound much like yours. May the force be with you.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I hate it when my internet goes far, far away.
DeleteI still call my son and just tell him to make it work! I do not want to know how it works, just that it works. I have been having trouble lately, too. Could it be related to the government shut down!?! My son laughed at me.
ReplyDeleteMine laughed at me about the System Restore. Even though it worked in the past!
DeleteI've had days of iffy connections where I just blamed the weather, turned the whole thing off and read a book instead. More recently my city has been rolling out the NBN (National Broadband Network) cables and there were times connections were super slow, I could turn on, go and wash up the dishes and be back in time to type in my password, that slow.
ReplyDeleteRe Kathy's Klothesline above, I tend to throw suspicious thoughts towards governments too, when things don't work as they should. And shutting down a whole government might have some bearing on this, the internet is a business just like any other and without government, businesses do have problems, yes?
That is super-slow, but at least you have it.
DeleteYou and Kathy are preachin' to the conspiracy theory choir! Of course I blame the government, one way or another.