Three days ago in the mid afternoon we started to get some rain and a little thunder. This is my cue to shut down and disconnect all electronic equipment. Unfortunately, while I was winding down, there was an enormous crack of lightning that sounded and felt like it was directly overhead. My system went down in seconds but miraculously recovered everything except internet. Now being the "expert" I am, I decided to put in a call to the resident PC surgeon. We agreed, it was likely the ethernet connection at one end or the other had been blown up. He had a spare ethernet card so I set off to Potrero, the neighbouring community in the pouring rain on my Honda ATV. He gave me the card and went back into the shop to look for a cable to test the system with. While I was waiting, I saw Sally, one of my dogs at the bottom of the hill. She had somehow followed me all the way from the house to Pat's in Potrero. She gets spooked by thunder and lightning so I guess chasing me seemed like her best option. I picked her up and placed her in one of the cargo boxes on the back of the machine and took her home.
I could not install the ethernet card...seems the CD is corrupt. Called the Cable Service provider who promised to send out a technician the next day. While I was waiting, I switched the internet connection to USB and it worked. The technician came and went claiming to have fixed it but it is still not working. Today I downloaded the support material for the ethernet card but the system will still not let me install it. USB is slower than ethernet but I can live with it.
I will call the Cable company again tomorrow. And poor little Sally is limping around as though she had run a marathon...which I guess, in dog kilometers, she did.
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