Nov 15 2006
bandwidth thievery
Our Internet has decided to only selectively work. By this, I mean that it says it is 100% connected and that everything is happy, but you cannot connect to anything. What makes this even more odd is that it only seems to happen at night, around 9 PM. Is the cable company telling me to go to bed earlier?
It works all day just fine, wireless and wired but, come night, the big fat raspberry on both. It makes no sense. Heck, the TV and phone work and they rely on the very same cable line.
So this issue has been going on for about a week and since I do a lot of work online, it’s really cramping my style.
Example: this weekend, I emailed a client a press release I wrote for her. She never got it. Not surprising considering possessed internet connection behavior. So I email her, from my laptop, that I will resend the file (on my desktop) to her tonight. Because, mainly, I am stupid. So, naturally, tonight the internet doesn’t work at all. I thought if I stayed up really late whatever happens to make it magically work again in the morning (connectivity gnomes?) would happen and I could send it to her then. No dice.
So here am I huddled in a corner in my living room, leaning on the window, stealing the very very weak unsecured wireless internet that has to be from several houses away based on how strong the secured networks around us are so that I can send her the file, as promised, tonight. It took me a good 20 minutes of this pathetic-ness to even get this signal strong enough to work so after puttering with my own internet for a while and then trying to steal internet for a while, now that I finally got it, I feel like I should do something meaningful with it.
On second thought, maybe the cable company is right and I should just take the hint…
Goodnight all. . .
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