Sometimes!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63643)
United States
September 23, 2024 4:10pm CST
Yesterday, about 6 we had a small power blip. It turned out my complicated electrical lights, but not my simple sort of manual light. It also turned off my computer. So, I turned it back on. And the internet didn't load. The roommate came in and rebooted the stuff and no joy. Called the cable company, who handles our internet, and we had an outage. Estimated repaired, 7 p.m. There was no joy at 7, and they now said 10:30. Well, with nothing to distract me from my migraine, I took my medicine and went to bed at 7:30.
I woke up just before 10 and... now the time had changed to 12:30. I woke up just after 3 and they were now saying 7 a.m. I had gotten about 8 hours, so I stayed up, took my morning pills, finished my book and... about 6 a.m. the outage was still on going and they no longer were giving any estimated repaired time.
The headache was back, so about 8 I went back to bed. I got a call an hour, one during 9, one during 10 and one during 11. I finally got up just before 2.
The internet was back!!!
This was just one of the longest cable outages I've had in a long time. I mean, earlier in the week we had another one of the power blips and no trouble with the cable... now I'm wondering if the cable caused this second blip...?
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@akalinus (43366)
• United States
23 Sep
I am in Florida and our power blips and we have outages. Sometimes it is the electricity, the internet, and the phones. lI hate when it messes up the computer, I am usually working on something at the time.
I do have books to read if I can find enough light.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
24 Sep
I had light, and I have books... did I want to crawl over to where my "to be read" shelves are? Actually, I think I need to crawl over and weed those out! I think I have 200+ but currently I just have no desire to read any of them. I'm sure if I got one and started, I'd read it... but I have a book I've half read and I'm just not invested. The book I did read, which I got when I visited my sister, I enjoyed the end enough that I want to see if I can find another one. The other book I had at my sisters, I brought it from home, now I want to find the sequel.
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@kaylachan (71918)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Sep
Highly doubtful unless the cable's opporating hub is on the same grid as your house. Which is far-fetched. Not impossible, but usually not likely. I think it was a conidience, and the outtage would've happened reguardless.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
24 Sep
I really don't know about what the cable hooks up to. However, I do know that the cable box that controls several houses around mine, and mine, is in my back yard and they were not going there, so this was a bigger problem than just our little area.
I also don't know what has caused these little power blips, while it has been hot, it isn't as hot as it was in mid-August where every day topped over 100ยบ. I think we did a 100 day mid week, and it has been hot, but this week we are looking at low 90s and even upper 80s. Still hot and the humidity has pushed the "feels like" higher.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
24 Sep
@kaylachan well, in our case in this neighborhood, and the newer one directly north, all the utilities are underground, but I'm sure it goes up a pole somewhere. There is a high power pole in the area, one of those that goes out of a power thing... we have had big problems and the cable guys have to go underground once in a while, happened last year, or right at the end of '22 I think.
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@kaylachan (71918)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Sep
@ElicBxn Someone from spectrum who does repairs, got chatty and gave me a basic rundown of how cable internet works. Basically, the cables that attach to your cable box outside, go up to a power poll, and meet at a centeralized hub, just like eletrical cords do. This hub supplies cable for a radious of three miles give or take in a 180 degree circle. If it goes down, cable can be out for all houses feeding off that hub, and it spans several miles. Given the length of the outtage, that's likely what happened. And, just like with power outages, the sorce has to first be traced.
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@Shavkat (140131)
• Philippines
24 Sep
@ElicBxn At present, I cannot. It has been my source of income for more than a decade. Although I had my medical mission in the past and never used the internet for one year at that time. Thus, I was able to survive without it with the given period of time.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
24 Sep
Me too! I might've had to do something drastic, like find something else to do... like write a story. Or, actually write on the one that is started. I did write a page and a half, small pages, wide lines, skipped between paragraphs like I do here.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
24 Sep
@wolfgirl569 yeah, but I use youtubes to sort of self-medicate migraines. They distract me from migraines if they aren't too bad. I ended up taking migraine medicine and going to bed. My head isn't great, but I've got my computer back so... yeah?
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@wolfgirl569 (108301)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Sep
@ElicBxn You could work on that anytime.
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@RasmaSandra (80847)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Sep
Glad you got the Internet back, I am lucky I have not got such problems lately,
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