14-Jan-2013

Connection troubles – once more
At 12:21 local time (11:21 system time) the connection broke down again. Not just Internet (which O experienced), also phone and TV were gone. After waiting at the phone for about 20 minutes, I was able to contact my (then expected current) ISP to find out that the line had been taken over, presumably by my (then new) ISP, by which all services were gone, even the analogue and digital signal that are converted from fiber to coax. SO I called the new ISP and, after again, some waiting, I learned the line was indeed transferred and the new signal was all available on that connection. It’s just that the modem wasn’t installed.
This was weird, since I already had an appointment with the company that was to install that modem: on Feb. 1st, after postponing from Dec 28th. Indeed – but it was brought to today by the ISP, a ticket was created but since there already was an appointment set, there was no need to re-assign it to today.
Not too bright.
Anyway: the connection will be brought to life tomorrow (15-Jan-2013) between 1600 and 1700 – local time. Because the IP address for the new connection has been assign already (at least, I got an address in the confirmation letter) I can ask my DNS-registrar to reassign my addresses tonight. Or tomorrow morning, after confirmation from my ISP.
In the mean time, I can get on by specifying the addresses in the local configuration.