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13 years ago
God damned week of no internet makes Skippy a ******* ******!
So yeah, Sunday I wake up to find all of the clocks in the house flashing and all of the sky/free-view boxes turned off. Sure fire indicators that something has been dicking around with our power supply.
And sure enough, turns out we had a power surge/spike.
So not thinking anything of it, I reset all the clocks and head out to my gaming club. only to get back late and find the broadband is playing up. We try allsorts. Even going into the firmware and messing with the settings, nothing.
So we phone up Sky tech support and they do line checks etc and say "We'll phone you back in 48 hours". That was sunday...
Wednesday rolls around and still nothing. My dad's borrowed a Modem/Router from a friend to check the connection and failed. Still blaming the phone line we call up sky. they say they need some more time.
Thursday. We get bak in touch with them and they say there's nothing more they can do over the phone, their sending out an engineer... on MONDAY!
MF MONDAY?! I'm livid at this point. after pacing my room for 20mins I decide to grab all my tech gear and re-check the boxes. Ours still refuses to work but I managed to get a signal through on the spare. Turns out it is our box after all. So with another call to sky We have to buy a New Router (which will be delivered Saturday) and manage to call off the engineer (who would have charged us for wasting time (thats what they call hardware faults).
Tl;dr Our Modem/Router is fucked, We're getting a new one Saturday and we're on a borrowed spare till then.
Skippy is not a happy kitty (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
In other news I hit 3000 page views during my downtime and finished off that avengers commission I've been working on for the past few months ^-^
So yeah, Sunday I wake up to find all of the clocks in the house flashing and all of the sky/free-view boxes turned off. Sure fire indicators that something has been dicking around with our power supply.
And sure enough, turns out we had a power surge/spike.
So not thinking anything of it, I reset all the clocks and head out to my gaming club. only to get back late and find the broadband is playing up. We try allsorts. Even going into the firmware and messing with the settings, nothing.
So we phone up Sky tech support and they do line checks etc and say "We'll phone you back in 48 hours". That was sunday...
Wednesday rolls around and still nothing. My dad's borrowed a Modem/Router from a friend to check the connection and failed. Still blaming the phone line we call up sky. they say they need some more time.
Thursday. We get bak in touch with them and they say there's nothing more they can do over the phone, their sending out an engineer... on MONDAY!
MF MONDAY?! I'm livid at this point. after pacing my room for 20mins I decide to grab all my tech gear and re-check the boxes. Ours still refuses to work but I managed to get a signal through on the spare. Turns out it is our box after all. So with another call to sky We have to buy a New Router (which will be delivered Saturday) and manage to call off the engineer (who would have charged us for wasting time (thats what they call hardware faults).
Tl;dr Our Modem/Router is fucked, We're getting a new one Saturday and we're on a borrowed spare till then.
Skippy is not a happy kitty (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
In other news I hit 3000 page views during my downtime and finished off that avengers commission I've been working on for the past few months ^-^
Hope to see you at the next meet x
And yeah, I'll be at next week's meet ^-^
Bummer there Skippy, I'd hug you but what little manly pride I have left is needed for my death bed... where it will be quickly lost by my using the last words of none other than Dinobot from Beast Wars...
...and revealing that just made it shrivel up just that little bit more.