Categories: uncategorized
Date: 03 March 2006 13:25:50
Sorry I've been missing so long and leaving you on tenterhooks!
No, it wasn't so much a case of real life taking over, fortunately, and no I had not run away to the health spa for ever and ever, unfortunately.
No, I was having serious and prolonged internet connection difficulties. Nothing I tried seemed to work. Connecting the modem cable to my laptop didn't help, logging in as a Smudgelet didn't help, and I checked all the connections I could find were secure, even the totally irrelevent ones as my broadband is provided through my cable set-top-box. All to no avail.
I was warned that calling out an engineer was a bit of a gamble. If the cable engineer came and found a problem with my cable provision, that was fine, but if it was my computer that was at fault then I would not only have to pay a call out charge for the cable engineer, but also pay for a computer engineer to come and sort that. If I called out a computer engineer and it turned out to be a cable problem, I'd have to pay the computer engineer's call out charge. I opted for the cable people, seeing as it wasn't working with my laptop either.
I was extremely relieved that it was before the arrival of the cable engineer that I spotted the empty socket on the back of my set top box and asked myself what might possibly go in there. It looks remarkably like a modem socket, I thought to myself. Aha... what is that lying on the floor? Looks like a cable of some sort.... I wonder what that could be from.......
*blush*