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I’ve been offline for a few days. Lucky me! Just one more reason why I don’t like At&t. See…I ported my home phone number over to it’s own cell phone to save $$. When I called At&t to see if I’d still be able to get my internet…they said…‘Of course!’. What they failed to tell me was that I’d have to set up a new account in their system and schedule a guy to come out.
So the other day I went online and then bam! Nothing. I called At&t and they assured me the number porting was NOT the problem. They said it was my Linksys router. So I called Linksys India —- 3 times– for a total of 4 hours. And was charged $29.99 to end up with (still) no fix. Why? Because it was on At&ts end. (I’m getting a credit)….After 5 hours I finally talked to someone at the phone company and they said…’Oh…the problem is the porting of the number screwed up your internet service.’. D U H. And then she scheduled a tech to come out and fix the issue. Two days of no internet.
The following morning our car battery died.
The good news in all this? I had a lot of down time to learn how to replace my own car battery. My first time and I did it!
But lo and behold. This morning the kids went off to school with the battery light lit on the dash. “It’ll be fine…just get in the car and go”. Turns out…I was w-wrong. The alternator is not working now. lol. Luckily they putted home (with no radio God forbid!) and made it to the mechanics. Guess who’s driving to school in the morning?
Oh, and the IRONY…..the At&t guy came today. lol. He spent 4 hours trying to get the new system to work. He finally found the problem in a shoddy phone wire in the house. HA HA HA HA. Karma At&t. Karma.
