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Nov. 30th, 2017 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSo, yesterday ... yesterday morning... I cleared out the end of the closet that the hot water heater guy needed access to. Among all the old, dusty shit that was there, was a huge glob of old telephone wire. I haven't had a wired telephone in years. So I just cut it out and tossed it.
About 5 hours later my internet died. My internet which is fiber and uses the telephone outlet in the living room which, apparently, is connected to the line I cut.
Now, why/how it waited 5 hours to die is still a mystery BUT clearly the phone line is what's dead. D'Shawn (sp?) is patiently trying to figure out how to fix because splicing it back together is not working.
--- and hour later ----
I'm BACK!!! whew. He got the spice in and it worked!!!! then he taped it to the wall for safety and left. And I had no internet. Happily, I had his phone number so I caught him before he left the 'hood and he came back and fixed it again and this time we came up with a better scheme for securing it.
And now everything is back and operational and omg what a long and tedious day! I've never appreciated my internet more than I do tonight.
About 5 hours later my internet died. My internet which is fiber and uses the telephone outlet in the living room which, apparently, is connected to the line I cut.
Now, why/how it waited 5 hours to die is still a mystery BUT clearly the phone line is what's dead. D'Shawn (sp?) is patiently trying to figure out how to fix because splicing it back together is not working.
--- and hour later ----
I'm BACK!!! whew. He got the spice in and it worked!!!! then he taped it to the wall for safety and left. And I had no internet. Happily, I had his phone number so I caught him before he left the 'hood and he came back and fixed it again and this time we came up with a better scheme for securing it.
And now everything is back and operational and omg what a long and tedious day! I've never appreciated my internet more than I do tonight.
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Date: 2017-12-01 05:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-12-01 09:53 am (UTC)I used to have cable tv and unbeknownst to me the cable was too close to the fire and it burnt through. Red faces when the engineer came
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