Ok Seriously. The world is simply not fair! NOT FAIR!!
As you all should know by now, I have been without internet connection at home for 2 weeks now. And as all of you should also know … this is for me a huge huge deal. I have been going through withdraw for 2 weeks! Serious withdraw! It even inspired me to get an xBox.
Well now, ladies and gentlemen I have PROOF that the universe is out to get me.
See, tonight I got home from work and noticed that all 3 lights on my modem were green. ALL THREE!!
Amazed I plopped into my chair and checked my internet connection. Something was wrong. By all accounts I should have been able to connect no problem, but I couldn’t. Somehow both of my PCs had Microsoft’s Internet Connection Sharing installed and configured. I didn’t install it, I certainly didn’t enable it, and in no way shape or form configured it … not even once … but it was on both PCs and screwing up the internet.
So I thought “no problem I’ll just take that off”.
Well it wouldn’t let me. I couldn’t delete the connection, or change it’s properties or even disable it.
About an hour later I’d somehow (I seriously have no idea how) managed to remove it from both PCs and convinced windows it didn’t need it.
Unfortunately I couldn’t convince windows that I really was sure that I didn’t want it’s firewall turned on. (I have a superior and separate firewall and cannot use the windows provided one or things go wonky). I turned off that stupid firewall 15 times in 5 different ways and each time it would just turn back on.
About twenty minutes later I managed to get it turned off on one of my PCs and it shot out to the internet like a champ. I tried desperately to redo whatever I had done on my main PC (my gaming PC).
About twenty minutes later I had my gaming PC online, patched, updated, and ready to go.
I fired up Star Wars Galaxies and got in game. Within a minute I was getting tells from players I thought had long since forgotten me, or that I thought I had only met in passing.
“Arhg! THERE YOU ARE!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?” and “THANK GOD! I thought my last friend in game had quit” etc etc etc …
Relieved to be back and touched at having been missed I started to respond when …
My monitor died.
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I sat there staring at a black screen hearing the incoming message beep mumbling “you’re kidding me. you’re fucking kidding me” over and over again.
