Off Line!

You may not have noticed.....bunch of goobers!!.....but I haven't been around since Monday. Lost internet. Windstream ( my ISP ) said they couldn't get around to it until today, Thursday!! And just what did they do? Brought out a new Router. That was it!!! Plugged it in and took the old one. Now anyone want to tell me why it would take 4 days to drop off a router and spend 5 minutes plugging it in......or better yet, why I couldn't have just gone to their main switching block and gotten one from one of their tech's?? ( Oh, right, they got me by the balls.....nevermind! )

 

Yeah Kat.....which is why I put in a wood stove....

 

I had a nearly 2 days outage earlier this year. I used the LTE internet access on my cellphone as a temporary replacement. Worked pretty well

 

Sometimes technology sucks....or our dependence on it. One of those. Sometimes I wish for the days when we didn't have smartphones. But then I forget the name of something and look it up on my phone. lol

Anyway, that's awful Tim. Sorry about that. You might want to check out whether your local library carries Hot Spots to rent just for future reference. We have them at ours and rent ours out for $2 a day. They come in handy.

As far as electric...the house we moved into tends to lose power more than our old. We've been here a year and already lost power for 2 days once. My husband just had a full house generator put in. I'm sure that'll guarantee we don't ever lose it again.

 

I did use my cell phone for a few "emergency" look ups......and was notified once I finally got back online that I had used 94% of my allotted data.
Windstream declared bankruptcy a little while back, so it makes me wonder if they may be purposefully trying to piss people off. They either have far too many problems to deal with or not enough people to do the work. 4 days!!!

 

We were without power for 8 1/2 days and it was miserable. The nights were so long! We have gas logs in our one fireplace and the gas dryer and water heater still worked. We also have a propane camp stove so I could make coffee on the side porch and use up some of the food in the refrigerator.
No smart phone so every night we went to a McDonald's for light, heat, tv, newspaper, and some food. Eventually I couldn't charge anything. I dropped a laptop at a friend's and asked her to plug it in. I told her we'd pick it up when we had power restored.

I now have a smart phone and we've decided that if a power outage is longer than a day, we'll go to a hotel use free wifi, breakfast included, working tv and place to plug in an old laptop and a tablet.

Most of the things I've heard about Windstream has not been good. You have my sympathy if you are stuck using them as your ISP.

 

There are only two alternatives....viastat and hughesnet...both limit your data speed after a certain amount. So yes, stuck!!