Re: MT nightmare
- From: "Sandi" <sanditypes@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:24:39 -0400
"Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:yvKdnQhBtIZUDObfRVn-tA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It started out as just a perfectly normal afternoon thunderstorm.
> Everything in our house has whatever protection it can have from UPS to
> surge protectors, whatever has been recommended for protection we have
done.
> I had just let the dog in and was going to the office to shut down the
> computers just to be safe--the storm had just started, when we had a
> lightning hit the likes of which I had never heard before in the 18 years
we
> had lived here. The electricity never went out. My computer is still
lit,
> no problems, right.
>
> Well, I did not have an internet connection and the phones were all dead.
> It took a day for the phone people to get here. My server is out and will
> not come back up. Power supply replaced hoping that was the major
> problem--no luck. Mother board and CPU replaced. No luck. Could not
find
> anyone local to repair the server quickly, if at all--they are swamped
with
> computer repairs. So, express mailed computer to my son in Colorado (who
> built it for me) $71. Modem apparently fried. New modem. Router
> apparently fried--no network, new D-Link, which I haven't yet installed.
> Modem still won't work. Telephone company comes and installs brand new
> connection from pole to house. Modem works--2 hours later quits. Tech
> support gets it working again. Now working but every few minutes I lose
it,
> which makes it impossible to work on client's remote connection. Clients
> are burning sound files to CD so I have to go back to pickups. Telephone
> company says it's not them, IP provider says it's not them. Maybe our
> inside wiring. Telephone company leaves me wire to wire modem directly to
> the box--won't help with routing or anything, but a temporary fix so I can
> catch up work until we figure out the problem. Bob is doing that now, so
> don't know yet if successful! Four days of work behind, and I had plans
for
> the weekend (Quilt show in Coral Gables).
>
> Now, not only those problems. My son's Television completely blown. Two
> Tivo connections completely blown. We cannot get a connection to Direct
TV,
> don't know what is fried there (Our TV seems to be all right, but we can
> only get channel 6 (my least-watched station) without direct TV. I do not
> think our homeowners policy will cover anything as there is a $2,500
> deductible!!!!
>
> If you don't hear from me for a few days guess why?
>
> Barb C.
>
Bless your heart, Barb! When it rains it pours.....or is that when it
rains, it lightnings? :(
Sandi
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