It's pretty easy to hate the internet when you have as many issues as we have been having lately. At least on the laptop anyway. Honey's computer has decided that it can no longer access the C drive and therefore won't load windows. We are planning to get him a hard drive (10 or 20 gigs) to put the operating system on so he can access the hard drive again (it's a 500 gig hd) and to find out if it's a bad sector or something more.
So you would think that since the Little Lady is not home and his computer is inaccessible that there would be complete access and the speed of light when it comes to using the internet on the laptop.
I'm still waiting for that to happen. We are extremely lucky anymore if a page loads. If it doesn't I hit refresh three or four times and after that I either give up, or if it is something I want to load, such as one of the blogs I own, then I close the window and type the address into a new one. It's a huge pain in the arse having to go through this with almost every page I want to visit. I feel very luck being able to have more than one window open at a time, with content, of course.
I have gone from doing maintenance (disk cleanup/delete all internet files/defrag) to unplugging the router to reset it and shutting down the computer and then rebooting the router. I have done all of these things straight in a row (and defrag takes forever even though it's done every week) with no real results. The only other option would be to have Honey's parents call the cable company (which they truly dislike doing, then again who doesn't) and have them check the lines from their end and, if necessary, physically. That won't happen unless they are having the same issues and I am ok with that.
Basically we are lucky if Google loads and if we have an actual internet connection when it does. Sometimes even the lovely little blue circle indicating that we have internet access vanishes for no reason. The lights will still blink away on the router and sometimes we can load pages when it's gone. I have no idea why but it happens, even with those that aren't cached.
If we are lucky, which lately our luck has gone to hell, it'll resolve itself. Let's hope so. Laters.
Comments (1)
WOW! What major suckage. Hope it all works out.
Posted by Wichi Dude | June 16, 2008 4:15 PM
Posted on June 16, 2008 16:15