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Internet keeps going out after power outage
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Post by
Blazecore
so last night my power went out for about 10 mins and every since my internet goes out every 10-15 mins. i have to reset my modem and router for it to work again. to me this is very odd any 1 have any ideas as to why this is happening?
Post by
TheOnyx
Your Internet Service Provider may be best-equipped to answer this question. I would try giving them a call, as it could be any number of things. Maybe the power outage affected your modem or router.
Heck, for a while, the internet would go out where I live anytime someone called the house. :-/
Post by
Marcela
Hm - I wonder what the chances are you living by me are. My internet did the same thing last night, for hours and hours. Finally started working at 7 AM. I have no idea what the deal was - I reset everything a few time, then just went to bed.
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Blazecore
Hm - I wonder what the chances are you living by me are. My internet did the same thing last night, for hours and hours. Finally started working at 7 AM. I have no idea what the deal was - I reset everything a few time, then just went to bed.
i live in Oswego, New York
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Post by
rayford
Heh. Funny story.
A friend (and guildie) of mine was in an instance with me one night, when all of a sudden he DC'd. He'd recently been having trouble with his computer, and so a DC wasn't that big a deal. In fact, we'd come to expect him to DC every half hour or so. But he always logged on within two minutes.
Five minutes go by, and nothing. Sudden I get a text from him.
"Power outage FTL." Ok. His power's out. No biggie. We get someone to replace him and finish up.
The next morning I get another text from him.
"Squirrels."
My response: "uh...what?"
Him: "Squirrels chewed through the power box at my place and killed themselves shorting out the power."
Me: "Wait. Are you serious?"
Him: "Yeah. Power company came out later and found two dead, crisp squirrels in our power box. Wanna come over for a meal? Already got it cooked."
Doesn't answer your question, OP. But it reminded me of that story. ( :
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Post by
BahamutOmega
Okay I'll try to give as professional an answer as I can since I do phone tech support for an IP. First calling them would be your best bet because we have certain tools to check to see if you are getting weak signalss which has a tendancy to cause intermittant connection. But when you call you'll want to have your router bypassed with your modem direct to your computer (they'll ask you to do it so to save time just have it done before you call). Powercycling the modem is standard procedure (a.k.a. unplugging the modem for about 5 seconds and plugging it back in). What you can do after that is try and advanced powercycle which means unplugging the power from your modem, unscrewing the coax (assuming you use cable internet, if not unplug the phone cord for dsl) then shut down your pc after about 30 seconds, plug the coax (or phone cord) back into your modem then the power and wait for the lights to come back up then turn your computer back on.
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Serphus
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Post by
Fennrahn
Heh. Funny story.
A friend (and guildie) of mine was in an instance with me one night, when all of a sudden he DC'd. He'd recently been having trouble with his computer, and so a DC wasn't that big a deal. In fact, we'd come to expect him to DC every half hour or so. But he always logged on within two minutes.
Five minutes go by, and nothing. Sudden I get a text from him.
"Power outage FTL." Ok. His power's out. No biggie. We get someone to replace him and finish up.
The next morning I get another text from him.
"Squirrels."
My response: "uh...what?"
Him: "Squirrels chewed through the power box at my place and killed themselves shorting out the power."
Me: "Wait. Are you serious?"
Him: "Yeah. Power company came out later and found two dead, crisp squirrels in our power box. Wanna come over for a meal? Already got it cooked."
Doesn't answer your question, OP. But it reminded me of that story. ( :
The only thing in this thread funnier than your story is your siggy...
I feel so inferior!
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