The Gorse Fox woke up to a domestic disaster. It was evident at first... there were ablutions to perform, curtains to open, and tea to be made and taken to the Silver Vixen. He then went in to his study.
There was something wrong, but it wasn't immediately clear what.
He started the computers (they are all shut down over night). The room started to hum into life. But something was wrong.
He opened a browser and that's when it hit him. The lights were not on on the Broadband modem/router. He was bereft. No internet. No early morning news. No email. No blogging... and if he didn't get it sorted - no working from home.
He did some basic debugging - but the problem was terminal. A trip to PC World was required and so he whizzed across to Hove and sat there outside the shop, going Internet cold turkey, until they opened their doors and let him in to drool over the various choices available. Making his choice he rushed home and feverishly installed the magic box from Belkin.
The look of panic that had haunted him all morning disappeared. All was well. Normality had returned.
4 comments:
Having been internet-less all last week ....
You have my sympathy!
When lightening struck - and the modem want bang - PC World and Belkin came to my rescue - my world started again!
The Netgear wireless routers must have a fault, that's two I've heard that were not very old which have gone bang.
Spooky. Our wireless routers in Manchester have randomly started going AWOL this week.
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