Rick_G
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A week ago Thursday (21st) we get the news the wife's mother has had a stroke. The wife then gets her flight home shifted from June to next Wed. (4th) and she starts to get ready. Friday night we get a close lightning strike, takes out our phone, internet, my computer and the ethernet chips on the wife's computer. Not being able to do anything else we head to our son's for Easter and let her brother know where we are.
When we get home Easter Sunday evening I disconnect the modem from the phone lines and all the phones now work except one it's dead. I call Bell and get some guy in India who can barely speak English and according to his check sheets the red light I have on the modem means the power supply is bad. The fact that if the modem is connected to the phone lines all the phones go dead means nothing to him it's not on his check sheet. 1/2 an hour later he finally connects me to someone in tech support and it took another 15 min. to convince them to ship me a new modem. It got here Tuesday and I have internet access with my laptop.
Phones are still up and down at random.
The wife finds out her mother is getting worse so shifts her flight to Thursday night (28th) with her worry and in between phone working and not working on Wed. morning she shifted the flight again to Thursday morning still the 28th. I now have to have her at the Toronto airport for 6am a three hour drive one way.
It still wasn't soon enough. By the time she got to her mother they were unable to arouse her at all. Apparently she is full of cancer they did not know about so now we wait. The Dr's figure chemo would be useless now and surgery would kill her so it's just a matter of time.
Oh the bell guy got here Thurs. afternoon and found the phone problem was corroding wires in the junction box. At least the phones work now and I can keep in touch with my wife.
When we get home Easter Sunday evening I disconnect the modem from the phone lines and all the phones now work except one it's dead. I call Bell and get some guy in India who can barely speak English and according to his check sheets the red light I have on the modem means the power supply is bad. The fact that if the modem is connected to the phone lines all the phones go dead means nothing to him it's not on his check sheet. 1/2 an hour later he finally connects me to someone in tech support and it took another 15 min. to convince them to ship me a new modem. It got here Tuesday and I have internet access with my laptop.
Phones are still up and down at random.
The wife finds out her mother is getting worse so shifts her flight to Thursday night (28th) with her worry and in between phone working and not working on Wed. morning she shifted the flight again to Thursday morning still the 28th. I now have to have her at the Toronto airport for 6am a three hour drive one way.
It still wasn't soon enough. By the time she got to her mother they were unable to arouse her at all. Apparently she is full of cancer they did not know about so now we wait. The Dr's figure chemo would be useless now and surgery would kill her so it's just a matter of time.
Oh the bell guy got here Thurs. afternoon and found the phone problem was corroding wires in the junction box. At least the phones work now and I can keep in touch with my wife.
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