Monday, June 26, 2006
This is going to be a problem…
There are nice men here working on the gutters or something today.
Since they needed not merely an electrical outlet, but one with a surface close by to set their rechargable power tools on, guess whose extension cord that powers phone and internet got unplugged by Joe Random Worker. Because even though there are two lovely outlets near the door - heck, four outlets, two of them not associated with a specific apartment - we have a washer and dryer that are easily confused for workbenches.
So off goes the internet. Again. They might have unplugged us if it hadn’t been just a random extension cord, but an obvious-connected-to-Verizon-equipment power cord. Then again, maybe not. The fact is, they shouldn’t have done it either way, just as sure as I shouldn’t have to use an extension cord to power the Verizon stuff.
Deb plugged us back in and moved their tools to the neighboring laundry machines, but internet didn’t come back, so I went down, not having correctly understood what she did, which was to leave them alone and plug us back into the 3rd floor power temporarily. All I saw was that our extension cord was unplugged, again I thought, so I unplugged them, plugged us back in, and duct-taped it thoroughly to dissuade people, which I’d already thought of doing, but only on the other end.
To my surprise, I found the Verizon cord plugged into the 3rd floor and so I plugged it back into the extension cord, duct-taping that. On coming back upstairs I learned Deb had done that, rather than disrupting the workers, so I changed it back, but it will be taped after they leave and we move it back.
It managed to come back on after I was done, reset the router and rebooted the computer. It’s really not acceptable to have to keep doing that because Verizon FiOS installations to apartment buildings in places like Middleboro totally suck in taking the, you know, apartment aspect into account. If you have DSL you might want to stick with it if you do not own the building or have solid control over where the service might be connected and powered.