I’ve been quiet online because I haven’t been online, because of a flaky modem.
When I hear the word “modem” I still think of screeching noises to get kilobits per second speeds. Those days are long gone, and today’s modems run quietly at hundreds of megabits per second.
Except when they don’t.
Yesterday afternoon I found myself manually restarting my modem every hour, which is not desirable. After a support call I learned that the modem was 7 years old and I could pick up a replacement.
I got the new modem early this afternoon.
Which worked…at 1 Mbps. Not as bad as the 1990s, but close enough.
Turns out I needed to activate it to get advertised speeds.
So hopefully I am back online.
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