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I have to say, for longer conversations, I really miss having a landline.
I have a headset I got for taking conference calls from home that makes all the difference for long calls. (You need one if you drive here anyway.) Much more comfortable than holding up either kind of phone for any length of time.
Yeah, the main reason we need a landline is for when S has to make or receive calls that involve very long hold times or when her cell is recharging, or both.
I had a landline at my old place for the door buzzer and the TiVo, basically. And 800 calls during cell-minute-using-time. Didn't have long distance.
This place, I got one of those "triple play" things, so I have a landline with unlimited long distance, which is good for the new work-from-home thing.
Hrm. My cable modem is doing this weird all the lights blinking together thing. Like there's something wrong with it. It's been doing this all day. I swear, it didn't used to look like that. ...but my internet, cable, and phone (all through the cable company) are all working. So other than being annoying out of the corner of my eye, it's not actually a problem. Anyone think I should do anything?
I've been thinking of going all cell. The problem is our sucky power company has occasionally week long outages, and our sucky rural cell phone towers have either no backup or less than 24 hours. I want to still have phone service when electricity is down.
My cable modem is doing this weird all the lights blinking together thing.
It probably could us a power cycling. Unplug the power, plug it back in.
If it's in imminent danger of failing, at least you have control over when.
OTOH? A piece of black electrical tape covers up annoying LEDs nicely.
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....oddly, unplugging the power didn't do anything. I think it has a backup battery or something.
I found the reset button, after that. Now one light is solid, and the rest are blinking. There are like, ten lights. Think if I reset it nine more times...? :)
It could also be that your service is down. Did you call your cable or DSL provider?
Oh and Meara, I've seen reset buttons that give the results you describe. Try pressing just one more time.