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If anyone's trying to reach tesstrosa online at home, well, you won't, because our Comcast cable modem has decided that for the last 24 hours, it doesn't want to connect. It wants to get really close to connecting, but actually connecting is a bit of a stretch for it. It's been off and on for the last week or so, and it's just getting tiresome at this point. Time to call them up, I think.

EDIT: Amusingly infuriating note -- when you work through their phone system, after you select the option for "I'm having problems with my Comcast hi-speed internet", you get a voice message of, "You can also reach us online at www.comcast.com." No I can't! If I could, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

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Comcast thinks that our modem problem stems from a general signal problem in our area (which would make sense; our low channels on the dial, mostly the local ones) have been really grainy and intermittent lately. Hopefully, the tech that they're sending out tomorrow will be able to resolve the issue. Until then, no 'net for us at home. It's frustrating Z to no end, but at least she can still work on art. I'm frustrated because between the shitty connection and my schedule being busy, I've gotten around one or two hours of WoW in the last couple of weeks. I'm falling so far behind on Eldre'thalas that it's not funny, and my mains over on Blackhand are getting lonely.

Anyway, back to the grind. ^_^

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First of all, a Happy Happy Birthday to hotokegi!

Secondly, you may note that I'm making a post while I'm at home, which would indicate that we have a 'net connection again. I located the problem, and have circumvented it. Apparently, the cable going into the office was severed. Not sure why, as neither Z nor I have gone near the cable with any sharp implements. It was rather wrapped up in a plant that seemed to have grown around it, though, so my guess is that the plant (which was tightly wound around the cable near the break) finally won the battle of constriction v. cable insulation. Still looks odd -- it's cut at about a 45 degree angle -- but considering how much trouble I had finding the cut amongst the plant, I can't think of anyone who would have done it intentionally.

Fortunately, there's another cable drop into the house in the next room over, and that room also has a network drop that routes back into the office, so I just moved the modem into the guest room, plugged it in to both the cable and the network, then plugged the network drop into the proper spot in the router in the office, and boom! we had a connection.

Still going to have the tech come out tomorrow, as we still have signal issues, and we still have a cut cable outside of the house. Z can't figure out why I bothered fixing it, so I'll be moving tte modem back into the office tomorrow morning, but I just wanted the damn thing to work. You think she'd understand by now; I'm a nocker. I fix things. It's what I do.