Well, today was quite a day so far! I got to my Mom's house, and she was telling me about some updates she saw, which, on the phone I said just to close them until I came today and could take care of it. Or so I thought; Instead when I got here, this site, and a bunch of others wouldn't load saying the connection timed out.... OK, odd, I'll look into this, and spent a while digging through the Firewall thinking momentarily this was the culprit, even though no settings seemed to have changed....
So I spent a while digging, and eventually, I had to *CRINGE* *GAG* call tech support.... Actually I had my Mom do that but then she made ME talk to them.... I used Opera and saw some DNS error messages, and I'm like wait, I disabled everything and tried and it still didn't work, this is on their end....
Tech support of course seemed to try the SAME shit I had already done... Explaining I'd done this already did NOT help... And being her internet and phone use the same "modem" (It's a router....Come on now.... Thing doesn't even have Modulation Demodulation....) so of course tech support ended our call when they reset it....Even though I'd done that BEFORE having my Mom call them up.
They called back, and asked me, once the connection was back up, so try web sites (Like theirs....Which worked fine) and eventually I think they realized it was in fact on their end and not this one.... They were working on doing a check list on their end, and after the "modem" reset, and it reconnecting and not actually fixing it, they were working on something else, and when I came back in from smoking, I loaded up phenohunter, and it worked!
Wife called on her break and was on the phone with me long enough for me to tell my Aunt that I only call tech support to inform them when THEY have a problem cause I'm a dick like that LOL.
I was meaning it as a joke of course. I did kind of enjoy though when a tech had to show up on site to fix something or install something, and seeing a command line load when they started one of my computers. No start button for you bro, tell me what you need to happen and I'll do it for you. Every once in a while, you'd find one who knew what it was and think it was cool
At least I didn't get the "It's a 1d10T error" or a "code 15"..... (Problem is about 15 inches from the monitor)