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Modem Replacement

March 21 update here.

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.

Is Mobile Internet Down in YOUR City? It Is If Your City is Moscow

In an earlier post I presented the unbelievable idea of all the bots disappearing.

Then I learned that mobile Internet is down in Moscow.

Intentionally. For security reasons.

And that is causing problems.

If you want to use your phone to pay your bill at a cafe…you can’t.
Want to get money at an ATM? You may not be able to do so.
Because Thomas Brothers never published maps for Moscow, people are getting lost.

So a problem that people never thought would occur actually occurred.

And this shows how something we take for granted CAN disappear.

Spotty (See Spot Run Extremely Slowly)

(Dog picture from Imagen 3)

Spotty Internet at my Ontario, California home since the latest rainstorm and wind. Off the laptop, on the phone (on cellular).