internet restored. thankyou ISP

This isn’t a gay couple with a ladder fetish! They’re the technical guys from my ISP fixing the RF connection. This pole one is about 80m from my place and there is a wire coming from their tied to the balcony here! This carries my TV and the internet signals! The 70+ channels TV signal comes free with the cable internet.

I lost internet connectivity for three days. The ISP had sent some guys the first day and they replaced the TV/Internet splitter and it worked fine, until 10 minutes after they left! The next day was blank. No tech-guys! No internet (though the TV worked fine and kept me entertained with Rita-the-hurricane.) The guys showed up the third day after I made a few calls. They tried fixing the problem with a new cable-modem, tried playing with the wires and the connection to the main cable on the telegraph pole (the pic.) They had some other guys working on the server side as well, kept talking about the decibels of RF that was received here. They couldn’t figure out what the problem was! So, they left saying “we’ll be back.” (Didn’t sound even a bit like Arnold.) After a while all signals went blank! These guys must have figured out the problem was at a far away junction and unplugged something from a far away pole as I couldn’t see them anymore. Another 15 minutes and I was back on the world wide data blips. They did it, and I live.

I’ve yet again learnt that drinking water and Internet are essentials of life.