OMG! After watching the final State of the Union Address by ‘W’, I was panicking upstairs in the computer room for over 45 minutes because my internet connection wasn’t working! My mind was reeling again about what could possibly have happened this time — from Homeland Security Administration tapping my internet connections and the intelligence community eavesdropping on my phone conversation to being blocked intentionally by my ISP (internet service provider), which is AT&T.
I pressed the ‘Repair’ button under the ‘Support’ tab of my LAN connection icon under the ‘Controls Panel’. I got the update but the internet connection was fried. I kept turning on and off the modem, the router and my computer but to no avail! The four lights to my modem had three of the four green lights turned on: pwr, dsl, and enet, except the act. This meant the modem itself is functioning. It did feel hot to the touch but that is normal. I do have one of DB’s TB on top of it, by the way. But I still couldn’t figure out what had happen.
So I tried plugging the wider (than a normal phone line) connection leading from the computer into the router to the modem. But the internet connection still didn’t work. Then I tried connecting the modem directly to the computer instead. That didn’t work either. I tried resetting my router by pressing the button on the back of the unit until the lights flashed. I let go of the reset button after a few seconds of blinking lights.
Then I got the router login webpage and logged in using the ‘user name’ and ‘password’ as provided underneath or somewhere on the router unit itself. It is a good thing I saved a screenshot of the ‘Network Connections Detail’ on a separate word document: 1. the Internet IP Address data (of IP Address; IP Subnet Mask; Gateway IP Address) and 2. the Domain Name Server (DNS) Address (of Primary DNS and Secondary DNS). I typed all these into the field of the webpage, except the Secondary DNS with no success. I tried several times to reset the router and the same process as above.
Then just when I thought I was about to give up hope, I tried to remember the walk-through scenario with the AT&T support back in December 5, 2007 (when my router decided to go on a work strike). So I thought I review the saved documentations of my paid walk-through deal of $165.00 for six-months and discovered my answer: type in the internet service provider ‘user name’ and ‘password’ as found on the billing statement, for example. Of course the ‘password’ has been reset last month, I did just that.
And lo and behold, the almighty internet connection has been restored. I am happy to be blogging once again and have finished this blog in about thirty minutes. I am pretty much helpless without my internet connection to the outside world. Until good news happens to arrived by month’s end, I’ll be back on the work force boosting the economy with my spending. Wouldn’t that be nice for a change after being unemployed since June 2007? Allelujah! Praise ‘Father’. Yes.
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