Grr. My internet connection has been driving me crazy. It keeps dropping out and I keep resetting my wireless. Which is annoying anyway, but especially when I live in a many-story townhouse, and my office is on the top floor (but if I put the wireless in my office, then I probably couldn't get it in the basement, and also then in the evenings when I'm surfing on the couch, I'd have to run upstairs to do it).
And so after the third time today, I decided I'd reset the cable modem while I was at it...and it went CRAZY, and my whole internet went down. Kept re-resetting itself, or something.
I decided after half an hour of this, it was time to go ahead and order my own on Amazon. I balked at the cost of overnight delivery, but paid for two day delivery. Because two days with only work computer (I have a cell-internet dongle) and my iPhone, internet?? Is two days too many.
...so of course, at that point, after I've ordered, is suddenly when the internet seems to be working again. Sort of.
You can also get a signal booster to help deal with the distance in the house.
My computer is dead. Motherboard, power supply, and graphics card. The tech says he can't even tell yet if the hard drive or memory are good until he replaces this first set of parts. That's $300.00, right there.
It seems to me it's unlikely the rest survived the surge if those parts didn't.
I'm screwed, right?
Deena, I have an old Dell laptop that I can send to you. Just let me know.
Thanks, javachik, that's so sweet of you. I have backup, so I'm okay. I'm just frustrated because it doesn't have my programs, or my stuff, and it's got less memory, but mostly the programs and the stuff. I saved everything to that computer. I've really got to stop doing that.
Deena, I have an old Dell laptop that I can send to you. Just let me know.
Isnthat the same Dell laptop I used to watch The Office (and many other DVDs) when S was in the hospital in SF a couple of years ago?
It sho is. Boyfriend has been borrowing it for a year, but he just bought himself a new laptop so it's now freed up again.
That was such a sanity saver that holiday season, jc. Thanks again for that loan.
I love that there's a spare Buffista laptop floating around. It's like the high-tech equivalent of that box of kids clothing that's been making the rounds since Matilda was born.
