Glad your power came back Manda.
Poirot, how awful, for the race to be cancelled, disappointing so many people! They must feel like they have thrown a bunch of money out the window.
Speaking of disappointments, I'm still trying to navigate through this internet mess. The technician was here for nearly an hour. He had to work on the antenna and inside as well. He got everything fixed and connected and even set up my new router, BUT he had already given me the bad news when he first got here, that the company is shutting down the tower that provides my service. This is the same guy who has come for all my service calls this past year. He is so nice. He's a veteran, has served in the Middle East, a young man, just nice as can be. I think he was nearly as upset about this as I am.
They are shutting down a lot of their towers in areas where they don't have enough customers to make it pay out. I understand that but it sure leaves me hanging out there. I do find fault with the company that they aren't notifying the customers. He was upset too, that they left him to be the bearer of bad tidings. The thing is, they don't seem to have cutoff dates. They are just not fixing towers when something goes wrong on them, and they're going around taking equipment off them, seemingly with no overall plan. He told me mine could last 30 days or 60 days or it could go down at any time. Well, I have a feeling it has already gone down.
Shortly after he left, I turned on my computer and was unable to connect to the internet. I called tech support (I get different people, all over the country, so they don't know about what's going on here with the towers). The person checked everything out and told me everything at my place is working. He said there seems to be a problem at your tower.
I didn't bother to tell him what I thought that means.
The technician who came to the house suggested I call Pinnacle, a small broadband service that is local to this region. They have a tower at the town which is across the river from me so he was hopeful their tower might be able to reach me. I called them. They were able to pinpoint my location exactly and measure the distance. The maximum distance they can reach is 10 miles.
Their tower is 14 miles from me because it is located east of that town, while I am just about 10 miles west of that town. I'm emotionally tired from all of this. Will let it rest for tonight and try to find out tomorrow if my tower has in fact been shut down. If so, I need to make sure they are no longer charging me, since the payment is taken automatically. Sorry to go on so about this. Thanks for listening.