I have Internet access!!!!

July 11, 2004 Posted by mitch | internet | 0 Comments

Man... not having internet access was driving me nuts. Comcast was scheduled to come today between 1pm and 4pm, I got a call from one of their techs at around 3:30pm saying he was running about 2 hours behind. So he said he should be here by 6pm. Well, 7:45pm came and my wife and I got tired of waiting because we had other things to do... and had now been waiting around all day for him. I called him, he said to call their office and maybe get reschedualed for another time, because he didn't think he'd make it out today. So I called, and the lady on the other end seemed concerned and said it shouldn't be happening, so she called the guy that was supposed to be comming to install ours, and told him to get over right now. So he left the job he was currently working on (and had been working on for the last couple hours anyway). And he had ours setup within 30 minutes. I wasn't asking questions while he was setting it up, and he couldn't get it to work on my gentoo linux box right away. So I grabed my laptop from work and he used that to get it setup. Went without a problem. After he left however, I tried to get my gentoo box back on it. Wasn't working... my gentoo box would no longer get an IP from their dhcp server, and I didn't know exactly why. I looked around on the net a bit and found out exactly what was happening and why he wanted to use the windows box. But, turns out the problem was very simple. I only needed to unplug the power from the cable modem and then plug it back in. My gentoo box grabed an IP immediately. First thing I did was download emails and run an emerge sync && emerge -u --deep world. And I'm noticing a big difference over Ygnition's "T1" we had at our old appartment. I really don't think they had a T1, or they had it capped on the bandwidth each user could use... Anyway, so far so good.

As for Comcast's service. I didn't like the wait (had to wait about a week and a half for the install) but they said it would be done today, and they did all they could to make sure it was done today. Which I appreciate. I mean... the internet has been a part of my life for years, I don't think I've been this long with out it at home for years... almost went insane.... good thing I have internet at work, or i would have :)