Waiting for the Cable Guy
My Internet connection has been up and down and up and down a hundred times a day for the last several days, maybe a week. I finally got fed up and called Comcast again. After much denial and hemming and hawing, Comcast admitted that it might be the refurbished RCA modem they sold me a while ago. They sometimes stop working when they get hot.
This morning, the cable guy is supposed to come and check it out. Until a few moments ago, I was praying it would break, so I could tell him it’s been down at least once this morning. Well, it did go down at least once today. Yay! It’s working now (or at least, I think it is. We’ll see when I hit the “upload” button on this entry.)
I hope it’s busted when he arrives, sometime between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. today. I don’t know why this is, but usually my computer won’t produce a recurring error whenever a tech is nearby to observe it breaking. Usually everything works brilliantly until that guy leaves.
January 20, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Its tech aura. The tech magic that emminates from us is so powerful we never actually touch anything. It takes years of humbling yourself before the technology god to aquire.
January 24, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Of course, the modem was working perfectly when the cable guy finally showed up.
We have a new modem now. Cable guy swapped it out, even though he was pretty sure it wasn’t a problem with the modem that was causing the connection to drop. The connection hasn’t dropped since he gave us the new modem.