Day to Day Log

If it's not one thing it's another. Broadband has been out in Evesham for 4 days finally being restored yesterday. At least I should now see some automatic compensation, but having been without broadband for 6 days in the last three weeks I feel that 2 days compension is just a con? While the fibre was down I was using the phone's hotspot to at least stay in touch, but that can't restore the fixed IP address and websites. In any case the whole reason I had to get fibre fitted…

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To add to the fun with the broadband, the desktop computer has been throwing a wobbly with one of the monitors randomly going blank and then coming back. I think the problem is the computer end as swapping the monitors, the problem moves. While it was just the odd flash a day I could live with it, but yesterday is was the odd flash of display. Swicthing the displayport to HD from 4k has made it stable, but just why is it causing a problem now, almost 9 months since I set the machine up. I am…

Hopefully all back up and running again! 48 hours after it first went down. Had a few restarts of the new router only one of which I instigated but need to see if there is any problem for the rest of the day. NOW I need the returns envelope that was supposed to have been shipped with the new router and get the bill for the new one cancelled!

A bigger problem now in that the BT Hub 3 is crashing. It will run for 5 or 10 minutes from cold, and then the light drops to Green and even the wifi internally is down. I do have a backup via the mobile phone, but that can't be used to replace the static IP address that I am paying BT for. There support is even worse than it used to be and as yet they have not even put a parcel into Royal Mail, so it's unlikely to arrive today! AND they have billed me for the replacement already desp…