Auroral

I woke up yesterday to find my computers off, we’d had a power cut, so I just booted them back up but couldn’t connect to the net. Now I’d just got new modem from Virgin Media recently after their poor show of customer relations, I’d had a fair few problems with the new modem so naturally thought it was that.

Well for once it wasn’t the modem and it wasn’t Virgin, I spent about 5 hours assessing the network and why no computer could connect to the net, I then got pissed off, turned all the electric off and went to Tesco’s for some comfort chocolate as you do (no wonder I’m such a porker now).

I could connect to the router, I could connect to other computers on the network, I could use the network printer, I just couldn’t use the bloody net, I finally thought sod it and just reset the router (the little button on the back that sets it back to factory defaults). As if by magic this fixed the problem, I’d lost all my damn settings, port forwards, dmz, and various other things so had to spend a few minutes setting all that back up.

But at least I’m back on the net……………………

Man I’ve missed this shit hole.

On a similar issue, lets talk a little about Virgin Media. When it used to be Telewest I never really had any issues, the service was fine, customer relations was efficient, but now it’s Virgin Media, what the hell has happened. I’ve had the service down for hours and once even days, I’ve had engineers come to remove my boxes when they shouldn’t. We’re on the top bods dollocks 20mb connection, oh man sometimes it feels like I’m back on a 56k modem. They blamed it on the old modem, I got a new one ‘FREE’ of course but still I had issues, it doesn’t like my router either, and thats when my main problems started.

After calling them up and having a bitch fit, I finally got something done, it’s not perfect the connection still plays up but now I get my cable TV and Telephone FREE for the next 12 months, yep I only pay for my broadband connection, which is pretty funky so I can live with their incompetence for a while longer, providing it doesn’t become overbearing.

hmmm mine is a wireless router, perhaps it’s out to get me and conquer the world, muhahahahahahahhaha

I just wanted to include the graphic above, me likes it, so had to work it into the blog somehow eh……. lol

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