So a Comcast tech showed up before 8:00AM and fixed our Internet connection. As suspected, it was NOT anything we did. Some hardware downstairs needed to be changed, and the splitter here was also a problem. Those have both been changed out for ‘better’ equipment. We’ll see if that’s the end of it; at this point I don’t really trust anything that a Comcast tech tells me.
So now we get to wait and see if it goes out again or not. This time we’re hedging our bets and have placed an order for DSL from our old DSL provider. We won’t be able to get the 6MB download speeds that Comcast promises, but I’ll settle for slower downloads if the damn thing just stays up and connected 24/7.
The home access outage has put me wildly behind on a number of things but I will try to get back up to speed in the next 24 hours.