The early evidence of a problem started last night when I got home. Soon after I turned on the television, I had problems accessing certain stations at certain times. The signal would just cut off, and I had to figure out a workaround just to watch the program I wanted. Now, I get my cable television through the internet. The provider switched things to this way a few years ago. Usually, there are no big problems, unless something happens to the internet. However, last night, there were no problems with the internet. I could surf, stream, and play games without any problems whatsoever. I only had problems switching channels on the television. It was only a few stations, and not every time I changed the channel. It was as if the cable box couldn't find the correct signal to latch onto. It got so bad at one point that I had to turn the cable box off and restart it. After watching the late night news, I turned everything off.
As soon as I got up this morning, I knew that there was a problem. One of the lights on the modem wasn't on. That light was the one that indicated that there was wifi signal. As soon as I turned on the television, all I got was a notice that there was no signal. The cable box then switched over to the main screen, which somehow wasn't affected by whatever was happening. I checked both my MacBook and my phone. The wifi was working, but there was no internet to connect to. (In case you are wondering, I have almost no cell signal at home. Barely a bar, at best. So, whenever I use my phone for gaming and such, I just use wifi. While this means I can't call or text on it at home, this has only been an issue only a few times.)
This meant that I had no way to catch up on the news or weather, and I needed to know about some things to plan out the week. It also meant that I couldn't go online to check social media, but with how the algorithm has been acting up, the posts might be over a month old. The worst part was that I couldn't automatically get my check-in gifts on my game. The gifts occur every four hours. I have scheduled things so that I can get six a day, but only by a small window of minutes. By not having internet this morning, I missed out on my overnight bonus, and my early morning bonus. I'm going to now have to take a break in writing this post to go outside so I can get a better signal just so I can activate my bonus at the right time.
I'll be back in a few minutes, although it won't matter to those reading.
And I'm back. I hate to go outside sometimes just to check my phone, but I sometimes can't get a signal inside. At other times, the signal is so slow I can't use the phone for anything but calling.
Anyway, the provider didn't have a time when the internet would be fixed when we called them. On the landline. (It wasn't affected by the outage.) I'm just hoping it will be back on tonight, or will be in some serious trouble.
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