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RAR stupid @#$%!^&* sonofa -- oh. okay.
so last night around midnight i was Abruptly Disconnected. the DSL modem went -click- and the connection went -pft- and when i reloaded the page i was on i got that page of self-diagnostics the ISP gives me when That Sort Of Thing happens.
normally it's a PPOE issue (i don't know what that means -- less geek than nerd, remember -- but that's normally what it is). fixing this involves turning the modem off for ten seconds, turning it on again, waiting until the little PPOE light turns on, closing the browser, reopening it, and going on my merry way. i say "normally" like this happens all the time; it's not actually frequent, but it's happened two or three times maybe and it's the only connectivity trouble i've ever had.
but that didn't work last night, and after trying it twice there was a big red FAIL result in the layer above that, which had acronyms i don't even remember. part of it was ATM. something about the carrier's service. (not sure what this means, either, with relation to the other things it could have been -- my connection, the modem, the ISP -- oh, the carrier must be verizon, eh?) followed those instructions a couple of times, which included poking the hole in the back of the modem with a paperclip to reset it. still nothing.
after about half an hour, i gave up and went to bed, because what, i was going to call customer service in the middle of the night? (i know, a lot of you are saying "... well, yeah." but dudes.) and when i woke up in the morning, it was still down. i tried the poking-with-a-paperclip thing once more, waited for the PPOE light to come on, which it didn't, so i thought, well, hell -- i can't exactly call customer service now when i have to leave the house in ten minutes. i'll have to call them later. like tomorrow. rar.
but then when i came out of the shower i had the little "new e-mail" icon. and in order to have new e-mail, outlook would have to be able to connect to the servers. and in order for outlook to be able to connect to the servers, my connection would have to be back up. i looked at the modem -- PPOE light was on.
no idea what happened, but no longer complaining.
what i am still complaining about is the pain in my right ear. the stiffness in my neck i was telling some of you about last night is mostly gone; there's still a little tenderness, but it's not really in the neck as much as in the hollow under the top corner of my jaw, where it is almost certainly an extension of whatever's going on with my ear. am loaded up on decongestants and analgesics, so i'm not really sure what's going on. (it no longer hurts my neck to hiccup, however, so that's a plus.)
going to get some hot tea now. hot tea can cure almost anything.
normally it's a PPOE issue (i don't know what that means -- less geek than nerd, remember -- but that's normally what it is). fixing this involves turning the modem off for ten seconds, turning it on again, waiting until the little PPOE light turns on, closing the browser, reopening it, and going on my merry way. i say "normally" like this happens all the time; it's not actually frequent, but it's happened two or three times maybe and it's the only connectivity trouble i've ever had.
but that didn't work last night, and after trying it twice there was a big red FAIL result in the layer above that, which had acronyms i don't even remember. part of it was ATM. something about the carrier's service. (not sure what this means, either, with relation to the other things it could have been -- my connection, the modem, the ISP -- oh, the carrier must be verizon, eh?) followed those instructions a couple of times, which included poking the hole in the back of the modem with a paperclip to reset it. still nothing.
after about half an hour, i gave up and went to bed, because what, i was going to call customer service in the middle of the night? (i know, a lot of you are saying "... well, yeah." but dudes.) and when i woke up in the morning, it was still down. i tried the poking-with-a-paperclip thing once more, waited for the PPOE light to come on, which it didn't, so i thought, well, hell -- i can't exactly call customer service now when i have to leave the house in ten minutes. i'll have to call them later. like tomorrow. rar.
but then when i came out of the shower i had the little "new e-mail" icon. and in order to have new e-mail, outlook would have to be able to connect to the servers. and in order for outlook to be able to connect to the servers, my connection would have to be back up. i looked at the modem -- PPOE light was on.
no idea what happened, but no longer complaining.
what i am still complaining about is the pain in my right ear. the stiffness in my neck i was telling some of you about last night is mostly gone; there's still a little tenderness, but it's not really in the neck as much as in the hollow under the top corner of my jaw, where it is almost certainly an extension of whatever's going on with my ear. am loaded up on decongestants and analgesics, so i'm not really sure what's going on. (it no longer hurts my neck to hiccup, however, so that's a plus.)
going to get some hot tea now. hot tea can cure almost anything.
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PPOE is actually meant to be PPPOE which means... nah you really don't want to know do you ;-)