So one of my children spilt a cup of water upstairs and it went into the light socket, triggering the RCD to tip for my house’s power. Took me a while to work out the issue. But once i worked it out and dried out the fixing and my power was back. Unfortunately my internet didn’t come back with it.
Pretty soon there was a chorus of Alexa’s booming the message that they have no internet. It was a bit big brother to be honest. So I pop onto the painful experience of going through the Vodafone chat help. After an hour or two I was told that it would be back in 24 hours.
of course it wasn’t, so i go though the pain again, only for it to get escalated to the second level. But I wold have to wait until the next day. (This morning). So I called the reference number this morning, and actually managed to speak to someone. It was amazing, and she was very helpful and polite. Unfortunately she could not solve the issue so it has now been raised to the third level.
However i now have to wait another 24 hours, after spending hours trying to get my internet connection back. And no doubt racking up an expensive phone bill.
ive taken the time to reflect on how dependent we are for internet now. want to listen to music, well Alexa is dumb when she can’t phone home. TV same story, firestick won’t even load the homepage without the internet. My smartlightbulbs are really dumb currently.
even the dam kids staged a protest with signs in all about thier right to get online! 😑
my hone network works fine, I can see the public IP address assigned to the router but alas no communication passes through. I can’t ping 8.8.8.8. Internally my network is fine and the DHCP server and the switch part of the router it working without issue.
im seriously worried this household will soon result in anarchy. The kids are starting to riot. And the wife can’t watch Eastenders when she wants. I actually had to get off the sofa and put a blue-ray in the PlayStation to buy myself some some time yesterday.
