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[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

YOUR CABLE MODEM.

RESET IT.

It's not that hard. Honestly. I can get a 5 year old to do it. You people have licenses to drive and college degrees.

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[mooja.livejournal.com]

http://gizmodo.com/381088/how-to-fix-the-internet-according-to-south-park

[110billion.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic. I might have to catch up on the last however many series I haven't watched, or just that one ep.

[zendequervain.livejournal.com]

I caught the tail end of that episode last night, and just about died laughing.

Unplug.

Plug.

Shazam!

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

The older you get, the less you listen to instructions.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Or if you're a typical Mac user, you're born that way.

[superbus.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, I'm sure our children (those who have them) look at us sometimes and go "damn, and you're the provider?"

[110billion.livejournal.com]

I ask that of the people I work with. You mean you WHAT?

Silly old fools :P

[crywolf.livejournal.com]

Having a license to drive is no indication of skill or intelligence.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

You've been reading bad_driving as well, I see :D

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

The college degrees are what make people difficult. It teaches them to "think" (er...rather, question every instruction they're given) rather than do what they're told.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

*ded*

That's the first thing I do when the internet goes out. Unplug the damned thing, then plug it back in. If that doesn't work, I unplug the hub, the router, then the modem, then plug everything back in the same order.

If it's still not working, I change out the cable (I have a bunch of cables that are only used for that purpose). Reboot.

If it's still not working, I call my ISP... and get bumped up to Tier 2 support. ;) Good times.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I'm called so many times complaining about modem reset/sync issues (my modem reset itself 3 times in 15 minutes one night so I started monitoring it and calling in every time) that they have my modem on an automatic monitoring program that logs every time the modem goes offline :)

I automatically get routed to tier 2 (and higher) support if I call from my home phone number.