All The Things?

[thessalian]

My router is still hiccupping like I don't even know. It's frustrating and disheartening and I'd rather not have to call BT. I just wish I knew what was wrong with the bloody thing. If I dropped £45 on a router I don't even need, I am going to be so pissed off. But I'll have a play around with it this weekend. Possibly at around the same time as I try to move furniture around. Yes, I am considering moving the furniture, mostly because I'm bored with the current arrangement and it's a little bit clumsy anyway. I already moved the desk (hoping that taking the router off my PC tower would help matters, which ... no) but I think the bed needs shifting. Hell, I need a single bed. It's not like I use more than half of it anyway and it just takes up space. But I suppose that's one for the landlord.

In other news, today is a beautiful, bright sunshiny sort of day. So of course, I am miserable. The bright shiny sunshine is a fast-track to migraine, and my sinuses are screaming their displeasure at the pretty flowering things because the pollen is really not helping matters. At all. Of course, it also didn't help that walking to work from St Pancras this morning, there were people scrubbing the steps of the Brunswick complex (shopping, dining, cinema specialising in foreign films) with industrial bleach. Inflammation of the sinuses + bleach fumes = owwwwww. Just FYI.

So grateful it's the weekend. This week has been a bit of a slog, all things considered. Not that this weekend stands to be a whole lot better, if I'm going to turn it into a router-prodding, laundry-doing, furniture-moving, bookshelf-tidying, CLEAN-ALL-THE-THINGS-ing extravaganza, but at least I get to sleep in. I just don't like mornings very much, I guess.

For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter, I realised I never actually mentioned the name I gave my lonely Forsaken warlock lady wandering around Bloodhoof at the moment. In a stroke of questionable inspiration, knowing that people have been on this server for awhile and most of the 'generic fantasy' names have likely already been used, I gave my zombie chick the name Porphyria.

Sounds real classy until you click on the link, no? *g*

Anyway, I have decided that from now on, all of my MMO characters are getting medical terminology names. Might as well put my medical secretarial training to good use, no? So I'll see how that goes. I mean, this is always assuming I can get my stupid connection to stop kicking me offline every ten minutes or so. It's really annoying...

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[endis-ni.livejournal.com]

What model router is it? How do the lights change when the connection drops?

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

It's a Belkin something or other right now, but that doesn't seem to matter because it was happening with the one BT gave me, too. As to the lights, what happens is that the Internet light goes out and the ADSL / Broadband light blinks blue for awhile, and then orange for awhile, and then blue for awhile again, and then orange for awhile again, and then settles on blue for a bit, and then the Internet light goes orange briefly, and then stays blue. Then it stays steady for anywhere between 2 minutes and a half-hour, and then the whole process starts up again.

[endis-ni.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Intermittent sync connection, always a bastard. How far are you from your phone exchange? Is there a time of day when it's particularly bad?

Also, if you swapped the router and that's still happening, did you swap the microfilters and test from the master socket? If you've got to call BT those are the first questions they'll ask.

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know how far I am from my phone exchange. As to time of day ... not really. It's as intermittent at 7:30am as it is at 8:30pm, 1am or any time in between.

I haven't done the thing with the microfilters or the master socket (how do you test from the master socket anyway?) but the microfilter thing was next on the list of things to try. Thanks!