Down and Up

If you tried to contact me yesterday afternoon and expected a quick answer, you did not get it, because Spectrum Internet locally went down around 4 PM local time. Aside from a brief up-time a couple of hours later, it stayed down until at least 10 PM, when I stopped waiting and went to bed because my 4:30 AM alarm was looming over me, despite a two-hour nap that afternoon.

Lisa and I spent quite a while trying to make sure that it wasn't a fault with our home network, because this not only took my computers off-line, but also the Callcentric internet telephone. Eventually I noticed the text message from Spectrum telling me about the outage, and we then relaxed. Indeed, I went outside and sat on the porch for a while instead of staring at my computer screen working on Westercon stuff.

While I did have a backup plan for Day Jobbe (use my company phone as an internet hotspot), the company does not like me doing that and usually send me nastygrams for overrunning my data allowance. In those cases, I have to explain to them that it was for company business, but I don't like having to do it. Fortunately, by the time I got back to the computer this morning, our internet was working again and I could get back to work.