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Jul. 21st, 2004 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cabbitzillaSo I finally get myself awak last night. Online, enjoying myaelf... and poof, suddenly everything 'netish is dead. And the status light on the DSL modem is burning an evil red. Right. Well, maybe it's my end. I dumped power to the modem, waited 20 mins, then turned it back on.
And it's still red. Hrm. That doesn't look much like it's a problem on my end at all. Forty five minutes on the phone with Verizon's (very much non-)technical support reveals that the local concentrator (or whatever they call it) is down. No answer on the phones, no answer on ping, nothing. A couple more minutes revealed the problem: the entire building was without power, so the fancy multi-function phones were out, as were all of the relay servers.
I don't think I've ever had this kind of thing go wrong, before. Essentially, my power and equipment was intact, and my ISP had lost power. *pounds head on desk* The promised to have everything fixed as soon as possible... 5 hours later, I've got green lights again. Whoopie.
Yeah, whatever. I need to button up Mom's machine and run this devil down to her. Means I need to find clothes. Right. 'm outta here. Try and be good, darlings.
And it's still red. Hrm. That doesn't look much like it's a problem on my end at all. Forty five minutes on the phone with Verizon's (very much non-)technical support reveals that the local concentrator (or whatever they call it) is down. No answer on the phones, no answer on ping, nothing. A couple more minutes revealed the problem: the entire building was without power, so the fancy multi-function phones were out, as were all of the relay servers.
I don't think I've ever had this kind of thing go wrong, before. Essentially, my power and equipment was intact, and my ISP had lost power. *pounds head on desk* The promised to have everything fixed as soon as possible... 5 hours later, I've got green lights again. Whoopie.
Yeah, whatever. I need to button up Mom's machine and run this devil down to her. Means I need to find clothes. Right. 'm outta here. Try and be good, darlings.
