The Internet connection went down at 0830 this morning. \u00a0I thought it was an outage, so I waited until noon to call tech support. \u00a0ATT tech support says it was my power cord. \u00a0I drove to Temple, bought a new modem (because they don’t sell power cords), came back, plugged the new power cord in the old modem, and it works. \u00a0I guess tech support knew what they were talking about. \u00a0Now, I’m on a mission to buy another power cord, because they have to be cheaper than $100. \u00a0And I’ll keep the new modem as a spare, I guess, because they say these modems last about 2 years — that’s how old it is.\u00a0 Or, if I can find the cord, I can return the new modem — apparently I have 30 days to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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