What’s bad about cable internet? It goes out sometimes, and lately it sure has.<\/p>\n
This past Wednesday it was out for a while in the afternoon, threatening my Starhawk Community Night play … but it came back and stayed, thankfully.<\/p>\n
So last night, I woke up sometime after 2am, no internet. AUGH!<\/p>\n
In both “no internet” problems, there were storms around. There are more times than those in which we’ve had “no internet” since we’ve had cable internet but not many, and here we have two very close to one another. We’ve had many, many, many bad thunder storms over the past year+ and haven’t lost internet during them.<\/p>\n
In the “old days” we had DSL, invariably our service would degrade to finally nothing, and we’d have to call the phone company to tell them that the switch needed replacement. They would\/should have known it without us telling them, but it turned into a nightmare over how long it would take to get it fixed, \u00a0they had to do it fairly often, but never learned from\u00a0it. Well given I don’t really know how much service elsewhere went bad how often, maybe they were replacing switches all the time everywhere.<\/p>\n
Cable internet seemed a better solution, and it has been, but downtime is still hard. Fortunately it’s always come back within a time frame acceptable, I just don’t’ want it out when hubby is home working, or when I have an online game night that is important (to me.)<\/p>\n
When we have multiple outages it feels like a tedious, when’s the next time gonna hit, waiting game.<\/p>\n
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