Sometimes I hate computers!<\/p>\n
My broadband connection has been getting slower and slower over the past few days and eventually ground to a halt last night… Couldn’t do anything, not even retrieve e-mails. I’ve been on the phone to my ISP and submitting support tickets etc. but with no solution. In the end this morning I got an old computer, old router and loads of old cables out from the loft. Switched all my other computers, routers etc. off and decided to try with a completely different set of hardware, cables and even different BT outlet socket in the wall.<\/p>\n
Connected it all up, switched on and would you believe it, it worked… I didn’t expect that, but now it seemed as though there was a problem with my hardware somewhere.<\/p>\n
So, I connected the new (old) computer to the BT socket I was using before. That worked. Next step was to connect the new (old) hardware through the surge protector and splitter I was using before. That worked.<\/p>\n
Next step in the chain was the cable between the splitter a the router. That worked. Could it be the router? I swapped the routers back and that worked OK… Now, the only difference between the initial (not working) set-up and the new set-up was the ethernet cable, the computer itself and the fact that the phone wasn’t connected… I connected the phone and all was well. Changed the ethernet cable back to the one I was using before. All fine. So, I connected the computer that were originally connected back to the router. Started them up and connected at a decent speed (Well, decent for this neck of the woods anyway… A crawl for most people!).<\/p>\n
Basically everything was exactly the same as it had been before. Not one component has changed, but now it works and before it didn’t… Maybe it was just a fluke and my ISP fixed the problem whilst I was swapping hardware around? Maybe its just a temporary fix and I’ll be back to pulling my hair out again in 10 minutes. But at the moment, fingers crossed, touch wood an any other superstitious things I should do I seem to have an internet connection again and can get on with some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes I hate computers! My broadband connection has been getting slower and slower over the past few days and eventually ground to a halt last night… Couldn’t do anything, not even retrieve e-mails. I’ve been on the phone to my ISP and submitting support tickets etc. but with no solution. In the end this morning...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[1503],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n