Certainly I had meant to blog about our recent Las Vegas trip, but a couple of weeks ago our home Internet access went down. (Ha, I conveniently blame the Internet for my lack of posting. Right.) Actually our phone line began to hover between staticky and non-existent, thus our DSL signal would only trickle through intermittently. After a lot of back and forth between Sonic.net (our ISP, with whom we have bundled home phone and Internet services) and AT&T (upon whose phone lines the DSL still relies), almost eleven days of frustration after the phone line first went down, we got back up and running this past Sunday.
During that week and a half, since I usually work from home, I was shuttling with my laptop to my mom’s house to work there. And most other times Thom and I were using the web access on our smartphones (and pushing up our data plans). But anyway, all is well again.
By the way, we’ve pretty happy with Sonic.net (we’ve been customers of theirs for about five years, and their Fusion package is a great value at $39.99 plus taxes per month). As compensation for the downtime, they’re giving us a month’s worth of credit, which is more than we expected, so good on them. But it is unfortunate that DSL is only as good as the phone line it’s running on. AT&T, boo.