FPT, my Internet provider, is done pretty much country-wide at this point. They’ve been down since last night.
It’s not unusual for Internet at the house to be down. We’re in a relatively new neighborhood and the connection can be spotty. When I lose the connection to the house, I just dash off to a cafe to get some work done.
The problem, of course, is that a lot of the cafes use FPT. This outage is particularly bad because I can’t fall back to a cafe without doing a lot of searching. I can still post updates from my phone, and I’m now working on getting my phone tethered to my laptop in case this happens again.
Isn’t the Internet fun?
#1 by bert shure on 17 August, 2009 - 9:56 pm
hi chris:
your posting makes me think about my home internet setup.
if my home connection goes down, i can put five devices on my verizon MiFi card. this would be easy for my desktops, but not for my home mail and webserver!
maybe it is time to move it to a co-lo!
good luck getting back online.
watch out for tethering charges from your phone carrier.
–bert–