13.50 Nice guy from the Phone Co-op calls. Maybe the router is dodgy? Well, it wasn't yesterday when Joel was logged into it. It just wouldn't give an IP address out. Beginning to think BT are just thinking up excuses to save letting a poor unsuspecting BT engineer near me!! Last time I found out where the nearest fibre was, and then gave him my ABC business card. He went white, assuming that I was some sort of fibre Swampy, going to tunnel my way down there and hold it to ransom - as if. Although a 'breakout party' would be fun ;o)!
Anyway, tried logging into router over the Cat5 and nowt, so maybe they have a point. More Cat5 in this house than you can imagine, strung out down walls, under and over carpets, but narry a short piece as an alternative test cable, but PC network is operative - Ethel and Hermione can see each other fine so nowt wrong with the string. (No sign of Gertrude - kids comp - so another job for today, getting her back on the network so I can use their whizzbang printer!).
Nice phone co-op guy decides to phone Joel ........I go and make toast and Marmite to get me through the next phase and ponder why router is ignoring Ethel!
