Internet foibles
Yesterday afternoon (Saturday, September 17, 2011) our electricity dumped for about a tenth of a second.
That’s long enough for the lights to go off-and-on, and the battery backup for our DVR to kick in — although only for a tenth of a second: ker-click!
This here laptop is battery driven, so even though the house power-supply may dive, my computer keeps running on its battery.
All the house-power is doing is charging my computer, or overriding its battery.
But a tenth of a second is long enough for our Internet router to dive.
This here computer fools me! It keeps displaying Internet, but it’s displaying it from cache.
If I try to refresh; NOTHING!
Suddenly my wife, who gets the Internet wirelessly in another room, was complaining no Internet,
I was trying to do a Google-map search and got the “cannot-find” error message. —It couldn’t even find Google.
But of course my computer was displaying many other Internet sites I have tabbed, but all from cache.
Reset router.
Suddenly everything worked; my wife had her Internet, and I had my Google search.
It’s sick we’re so dependent on that Internet, and delivery of it can be flaky.
That’s long enough for the lights to go off-and-on, and the battery backup for our DVR to kick in — although only for a tenth of a second: ker-click!
This here laptop is battery driven, so even though the house power-supply may dive, my computer keeps running on its battery.
All the house-power is doing is charging my computer, or overriding its battery.
But a tenth of a second is long enough for our Internet router to dive.
This here computer fools me! It keeps displaying Internet, but it’s displaying it from cache.
If I try to refresh; NOTHING!
Suddenly my wife, who gets the Internet wirelessly in another room, was complaining no Internet,
I was trying to do a Google-map search and got the “cannot-find” error message. —It couldn’t even find Google.
But of course my computer was displaying many other Internet sites I have tabbed, but all from cache.
Reset router.
Suddenly everything worked; my wife had her Internet, and I had my Google search.
It’s sick we’re so dependent on that Internet, and delivery of it can be flaky.
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posted by BobbaLew at 10:07 AM
2 Comments:
This has nothing to do with your post but maybe you can help me. I'm looking to get in touch with Bill Ross to have my driveway sealed. The numbers I have as not in service. He did my draveway 2 years ago and my nothers last year. Any chance you have a number for him?
limaruss@gmail.com
No idea. He did our driveway too. (A good job too.)
He lived up the street (on 5&20) nearby in West Bloomfield, but I think got divorced.
After that he lived down the street on Route 65 around the corner from Cycle Enterprises — but seems to have disappeared.
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