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...And, crap, my ethernet is going out at random again, must go to Microcenter first thing tomorrow for the "step 1: new cable" dance. (Beginning to suspect overheating?) So if I'm gone for a bit... well. {sigh} I don't know how much more of this I can take...
ETA more calmly, since it's apparently still stable just now: since Gareth-that-was-Gaius came back from the shop, every so often I'll notice that suddenly nothing's loading, and eventually poking it reveals that "there is no ethernet cable plugged in" all of a sudden. (The "ethernet" light on the DSL modem going out or blinking in confusion is a Bad Sign.) I was sufficiently worried about this episode, in which I could not get the connection to come back up despite a couple of reboots, that I called for a second opinion; step one is of course "try a new cable". Given that the last time I had any connection problems it was indeed because furniture had squashed teeny wires inside a cable, I'm crossing my fingers, although the intermittent nature of the issue has me baffled and a little worried. (Then again, wouldn't a cable issue be the most likely to be intermittent, as the wires expand with the heat of the current and maybe a microbreak shifts out of contact? I'm reaching for the explanation that doesn't involve lugging the whole damn box in for another repair I can't afford, here...) OTOH, it's not as if there's any furniture sitting on the cable now, but OTTH, mebbe the very act of disconnecting it all to go off to the shop this time was merely a disturbance too far for a six-year-old wire...? Ah, well, keeping fingers crossed it's somethingcheap simple...
(And on yet another hand, as I think of it, every single time it's gone out has been connected to the act of checking my email via my ISP's web-interface, which is the other thing that happened to have changed while Gareth was having his little holiday; the new interface I came back to after that episode apparently loads directly into the tab instead of refreshing properly, and now I'm kind of wondering if it's at all possible that there's some funky interference going on at a deep-voodoo level here. I could be talking out of my non-techie arse here, but then again who the hell ever knows what's in the ads these days...)
ETA more calmly, since it's apparently still stable just now: since Gareth-that-was-Gaius came back from the shop, every so often I'll notice that suddenly nothing's loading, and eventually poking it reveals that "there is no ethernet cable plugged in" all of a sudden. (The "ethernet" light on the DSL modem going out or blinking in confusion is a Bad Sign.) I was sufficiently worried about this episode, in which I could not get the connection to come back up despite a couple of reboots, that I called for a second opinion; step one is of course "try a new cable". Given that the last time I had any connection problems it was indeed because furniture had squashed teeny wires inside a cable, I'm crossing my fingers, although the intermittent nature of the issue has me baffled and a little worried. (Then again, wouldn't a cable issue be the most likely to be intermittent, as the wires expand with the heat of the current and maybe a microbreak shifts out of contact? I'm reaching for the explanation that doesn't involve lugging the whole damn box in for another repair I can't afford, here...) OTOH, it's not as if there's any furniture sitting on the cable now, but OTTH, mebbe the very act of disconnecting it all to go off to the shop this time was merely a disturbance too far for a six-year-old wire...? Ah, well, keeping fingers crossed it's something
(And on yet another hand, as I think of it, every single time it's gone out has been connected to the act of checking my email via my ISP's web-interface, which is the other thing that happened to have changed while Gareth was having his little holiday; the new interface I came back to after that episode apparently loads directly into the tab instead of refreshing properly, and now I'm kind of wondering if it's at all possible that there's some funky interference going on at a deep-voodoo level here. I could be talking out of my non-techie arse here, but then again who the hell ever knows what's in the ads these days...)
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