For utter amusement value…
https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
-BobbyK (Tech Support Mark 2.0)
Kim asked me to drop a note to the effect of… “No internet until Friday at Free Market Towers”…
I am, of course, omitting his 10,000 word rant on British Telecom, but that’s neither here nor there.
Fear not… Kim will return shortly.
-BobbyK
Update from Kim: Okay, BT installed the new cable/router/whatever, and upload/download times are MILES better than the old, smoke signal-based system. It’s not perfect, of course; we’re still at the mercy of
…so the signal sometimes gets inexplicably dropped. But I’m playing catch-up, now: see below for what happened recently on my Summer Sabbatical.