Internet Fixed – I hope!

An early start today, well for me, the Orange engineer roused me from sleep at 8 am (7 am as far as my body thought as it still hasn’t cottoned on to the change in hour from yesterday). It turns out I had managed to ‘fix’ the Internet myself without realising it. I thought it was because the engineer who telephoned me on Thursday had done something. However, while I was wondering if the problem was at my house I had decided to run a check myself. I had got as far as plugging the telephone extension to the primary outlet and was about to run the cable all the way across the house again to the computer. I had then answered another telephone call and then noticed that the Internet was working.

Today, when the engineer was here I was trying to explain that it had been working since 10 minutes after the ‘phone call on Thursday. He wanted to see the telephone points and I took the extension lead out and lo and behold, the Internet failed. It turns out there was a capacitor in the socket that had failed, a quick change of that and a disconnect of the external bell that was also attached, and I am 93€ poorer, (fault was on my property) but and it is a very big but, with luck I should have a more stable Internet. I’m not going to hold my breath and am touching every piece of wood I can.

PS Why is it that Blogger always refuses to format the last paragraph when I cut and paste in.