fieryjen
Midnight Fairy
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- Mar 30, 2003
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So my husband and I were watching something online the evening before last (laptop connected to the TV), when suddenly it stops playing, and buffers... from 100% to 0%. Huh?
We refreshed, turns out that our internet isn't working. We did the usual resetting everything, called our internet provider, fuming because they've quite honestly been pretty crap lately. Turns out it's not their fault, it's our wireless router that's fucking up. Oops.
Husband stays up way past his bedtime trying all kinds of stuff to fix the router but finally gives up. Goes to work the next day deciding to buy new router.
I go upstairs when I wake up to turn on my computer to do some writing for NaNo, since we don't have internet. It won't boot. I haven't backed up my files lately and freak out just a little. I try about a gazillion times, no change. Computer is frozen on the start-up screen.
I clean the kitchen, but I'm sick so I soon run out of energy. So I go to play x-box. Can't connect to the internet either, of course, but there are enough games I don't have to play online for. I start up a round of CivRev, playing for about five minutes before the screen blanks out and stays that way.
Whatthefuckinghellarewecursedorsomething?
I check all the plugs, making sure none are loose, then give up and read some, then go to sleep feeling like the world really hates me. I wake up when the husband gets home and tell him my tale of woe. He has brought home a new router and braces for a long night fixing things. I'm just sitting on the couch coughing pathetically and feeling as sorry for him as I do for myself.
Two minutes later, the x-box is working again.
"The green cable was loose."
WTF? I swear I checked that, but okay. At least that's working again.
Then he goes upstairs to my computer, comes back down a while later with a Very. Serious. Face.
"Is my hard drive gone?"
"Nope, it's working again. I just had to vacuum the dust out."
Oops.
So then we call the technical help hotline for our old router and the woman decided to start off doing a reset from her end, even though we've reset the thing about fifty gazillion times already.
Guess what...? Yeah, that did it. Wireless internet is back, enabling me to tell you my epic tale. It took less only about 20 minutes to get everything working again.
Also, apparently I don't exactly have that special touch when it comes to electronics.
We refreshed, turns out that our internet isn't working. We did the usual resetting everything, called our internet provider, fuming because they've quite honestly been pretty crap lately. Turns out it's not their fault, it's our wireless router that's fucking up. Oops.
Husband stays up way past his bedtime trying all kinds of stuff to fix the router but finally gives up. Goes to work the next day deciding to buy new router. I go upstairs when I wake up to turn on my computer to do some writing for NaNo, since we don't have internet. It won't boot. I haven't backed up my files lately and freak out just a little. I try about a gazillion times, no change. Computer is frozen on the start-up screen.
I clean the kitchen, but I'm sick so I soon run out of energy. So I go to play x-box. Can't connect to the internet either, of course, but there are enough games I don't have to play online for. I start up a round of CivRev, playing for about five minutes before the screen blanks out and stays that way.
Whatthefuckinghellarewecursedorsomething?
I check all the plugs, making sure none are loose, then give up and read some, then go to sleep feeling like the world really hates me. I wake up when the husband gets home and tell him my tale of woe. He has brought home a new router and braces for a long night fixing things. I'm just sitting on the couch coughing pathetically and feeling as sorry for him as I do for myself.
Two minutes later, the x-box is working again.
"The green cable was loose."
WTF? I swear I checked that, but okay. At least that's working again.
Then he goes upstairs to my computer, comes back down a while later with a Very. Serious. Face.
"Is my hard drive gone?"
"Nope, it's working again. I just had to vacuum the dust out."
Oops.
So then we call the technical help hotline for our old router and the woman decided to start off doing a reset from her end, even though we've reset the thing about fifty gazillion times already.
Guess what...? Yeah, that did it. Wireless internet is back, enabling me to tell you my epic tale. It took less only about 20 minutes to get everything working again.
Also, apparently I don't exactly have that special touch when it comes to electronics.
