Internet down

Just got home from a long day of work and sat down to watch a little television and check-in on HouseBlogs.net. Pop open the laptop and.... No internet. Ellen runs into the same problem with hers. I haven't had to flex my troubleshooting muscles lately, but their aren't too many moving parts involved in our wireless network. I found our cable modem laying on the floor (it belongs on the window sill four feet above). Unplug, replug, wait. No luck. I try to put the cable modem back on the window sill, but it won't reach. Now, we don't have the office finished, so we don't have faceplates on the cable yet. Not that that would have stopped our puppy from yanking the cable from the siding and chewing through the shielding. I waded through the mud of our still drying yard, flashlight in hand, to confirm my suspicion. Fantastic...

I'll be running the cable through the attic and down through the wall this weekend. For now, I've moved the cable modem and router to the guest bedroom cable, which fortunately does not have a data filter on it (Time Warner has been cracking down and filtering each run from the box in our area).

That's it for tonight, but more updates soon.