I finally made it home late this afternoon. It felt really good to be home again after a month of road bullshit. After dropping my bags on the living room floor I immediately walked over to the c-store for a 12 pack. I wanted to kick back in my recliner with a cold one or two.
When I got back I fired up the computer so I could order a pizza for dinner. No internet service! What???!!!! It was supposed to be transferred to the new place a month ago for crying out loud! I looked over at the modem/router and it was blinking in a manner it's not supposed to blink. No signal. Jesus on a pony!
I called up the Verizon tech support number and complained about the fact that after a month I still had no dsl service. The tech, "Sherman" (I never knew folks in India named their kids Sherman) assured me that the work order had been completed. We walked through a few troubleshooting steps and he decided that the modem was faulty. Of course it's out of warranty too.
I told him that I did not believe that the modem was faulty but that I would go buy a new one if for no other reason than to prove him wrong. I went and bought a new one. I came back. I began disconnecting the old modem and noticed that when I unplugged the power the modem stayed lit. WTF?
After a quick wire trace I realized that somehow during the quick move and set up I switched the power leads for the speakers and the modem. The speaker power lead was plugged into the back of the modem and visa versa. Ummmmmm, hello? The little speaker power unit can't supply near enough juice for the modem.
Once I corrected the power lead mix up the modem immediately connected and I had internet service.
Naturally I felt like a total dumbass.
I probably should call up "Sherman" and apologize. But I probably won't.
Ah well, it' still nice to be home and maybe I can redeem my pride a little bit tomorrow by fixing the leaky water valve in the bathtub. Or maybe follow through on the whole dumbass trick and flood the joint.