football and the internet
by bear
How, you ask, could these two items be inter-related? Because yesterday both sucked! The Philadelphia Eagles managed to lose a game that had the opposing team score only a single touchdown. The receivers for the Eagles managed to not catch most of the passes and also directly caused 2 of the interceptions – horrible! Ok, enough of sports for the year – well at least until the other football starts getting interesting :) It seems that all of the negative energy of the Eagles sucking must have passed thru the cable infrastructure and burned out some important piece of equipment. I have to think that because otherwise I have to come to the conclusion that the techs of Comcast (my lovely ISP - truely they are normally good) do not subscribe to the redundant hardware philosphy. Anywho, the point I was badly making, is that somehow Comcast lost one of their core servers and that caused Internet access to drop in 3 of the largest counties in my area. It was down for close to 6 or so hours and when it did come back up the dhcp server in my area decided to require a kick in the pants. After all that their accounting database decided that I really didn’t have the modem I’ve been using and switched to a modem definition that I had swapped out 4 months ago. Joy! At least the techs on the phone were polite and informative - even if to tell me it was something only the weekday folks can fix. Stay tuned.