how would i have known?

Do you know what happened today? Of course not, so I'm gonna tell you.

Last Monday, was still a holiday for us, so the girls and I spent the day at home. We were all online. But suddenly, we all went offline. So I went down to see what's wrong with the router. The internet LED was not even on. I rebooted the thing. It still won't work so I called the hotline to make an inquiry.

There was no problem. So they said they will send their technicians ASAP to see what is going on and find a way to rectify the matter.

Tuesday, they came over after we all came home from work. They looked at it, tried logging on with the modem and stuff. They couldn't.

I tried logging on and tried setting the internet connection through the adsl website or something. The thing was, I couldn't even dial myself in that day. So the set up was unsuccessful. Then the tchnicians kept telling me that the modem/router might be broken because it simply would not connect to the internet.

So they said they will try contacting another unit which would be able to handle the situation better. We said, okay. We'll wait another day. But I still tried to reconnect when they were gone, but it wouldn't work.

Then I placed another complaint. Actually I called to ask them if they know how to reset the auto dialler in the modem so it would be able to remain logged on. But then we ended up doing other things. He helped me reconfigure my ip and all that other stuff. Still, it won't work, and they will contact the technicians to help me.

Thursday, the same people came. Same results.

Friday, we bought a new modem/adsl g router.

The girls urged me to come home quickly (the left without me after school because I had to stay back at school) to set the whole thing. They tried but it won't work. So I came home, installed the wizard and everything and tried and tried to set the auto dialler connection on the website after getting the wireless signal working.

I tried and tried, the computer keeps dropping the connection.

We went for dinner. Came home and I got back to work. The girls sat around me as I worked. They were as frustrated as I was, hoping that I would find the way around the problem.

Then they grew tired of waiting and decided to retire for the night. I kept working.

Then I thought, since I have figured out how to connect to the website through the modem to set up the auto dialler / connect, I might be able to do the same with the old modem, because that might simply be the problem; improper set up. That might simply be the reason why the Internet LED won't light up.

So I unplugged the new modem and put the old one back in its place. I did what I did with the new modem and voila... I was logged on again. The modem was not broken at all.

I text messaged Z who was in her room upstairs to try logging on to our old wireless network. She got in on the first try. M did too.

I feel sorry for the girls because of the new modem. But they were cool about it, because at least now they can log on again. Not like the past few days, with Astro acting up again. They have managed to watch their shows on tv3.com instead of on tv.

So now we'll wait for the astro technician to come over and recalibrate our satellite dish if that is the problem.

So would anyone be interested in buying a brand spanking new Aztech G ADSL Wireless Router?