It appears I have a power supply problem; looks like a surge in the night may have knocked out my router and PC (which luckily was plugged into a surge protector, though ironically everything not plugged into it is fine!), so I'm restricted to 3G on the iPhone only for the time being.
Posting and replies to comments will be light until fixed.
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Hope you can get it sorted soon
I imagine that your level of service, even with this impediment, will still be better than mine. You've nowt to apologise about.
Sorry to learn of your woes .. hope its soon sorted ..
If the surge protector was an inexpensive one it might be dead, just try connecting the equipment directly to power.
Good luck with it, Julia. The Weasel and I suffered a complete power outage for several hours the other week. It was like being catapulted straight into one of Moonbat's fantasies.
"Hope you can get it sorted soon"
I'm back! And incredibly dusty! Yuck.
"If the surge protector was an inexpensive one it might be dead, just try connecting the equipment directly to power."
Yup, it appears to have been that. Hopefully, it's got a reset switch on it somewhere. When I've turned everything off again and had a damned good hoover round the back of this thing, I'll investigate.
Oddly enough, I was woken at 3:38am by the sound of the cat's water dispenser going absolutely nuts for a few seconds - it sounded like it was trying to pump the bilges of the 'Titanic', then went back to normal.
Maybe we did have a surge?
"It was like being catapulted straight into one of Moonbat's fantasies."
I know, it's awful! At least I have the iPhone, though just before the PC got sorted, that suddenly lost the ability to get a net signal... :/
Some of the better quality surge protectors offer a guarantee covering any connected equipment.
Replace the surge protector would be my advice. These things have a life span in that they can soak up only so many surges before they're cactus and are doing no more than the job of an ordinary multi-socket extension lead. Decent ones usually have a little light on somewhere to show you that it is still working, and when you see that the light isn't working anymore it's time to change it. Or better yet, get yourself a half decent uninterruptible power supply. Not only will it smooth out any fluctuations in the mains power but if you get a power cut you'll have enough time to shut everything down properly.
Belkin.
"Some of the better quality surge protectors offer a guarantee covering any connected equipment."
I've no idea if it's a good one or not - it came from Dell, I think. Or when I bought my external hard drive.
"Replace the surge protector would be my advice. These things have a life span in that they can soak up only so many surges before they're cactus..."
Oo-er! This is the first time it's ever 'tripped' since I got it (last year).
"Belkin."
I used to have a Belkin, the latest one's Netgear. I just buy what my brother tells me to... ;)
This is the first time it's ever 'tripped' since I got it (last year).
Maybe, maybe not. If it's been doing its job up 'til now it might have soaked up a dozen surges before the last one came and knocked it over for good. The problem is that not all of them have a way of letting you known they're on their last legs and even the ones that do give no indication that they've only got the ability to protect you from one more very small surge. Not knowing that once cost me a $250 hard drive along with a lengthy restore from backup, though had the computer been off when the surge that killed it hit I'm sure it'd have been okay. Oddly in my case the router survived, undoubtably helped by being a cheap, hateful, shithouse router that I'd loved to have had an excuse for violently launching into the back of the electronics garbage bin of the local transfer station and Murphy's Law. Using a UPS is a more reliable solution, though obviously cost more than a surge protector.
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