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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 161614" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>OK, it took me a while to get back online properly. At last I'm typing on the new computer. It will take a bit of getting used to, but it is lovely. </p><p></p><p>We can't get wireless yet. The only computers in the house which could access it are this new one, and easy child 2/difficult child 2's laptop. My laptop and husband's laptop could not. Also, the wireless stiff wouldn't support our cable (which our older laptops rely on).</p><p></p><p>There is a company here called"Unwired" as well as other companies which have a wireless service; would you believe we live 100 metres too far south? If we had a second storey to this house, or lived a little bit further north, no worries. The school in the village has wireless. They are one block north of us, line of sight to the city. We have line of sight to the city from the front fence.</p><p></p><p>We used to unplug everything before a storm, but this one blew up in the middle of the night. And to unplug it (and plug it back in) I have to crawl under the desk.</p><p></p><p>The computer was fine, except for the Ethernet chip. Unfortunately, it's all on the one board and they don't repair just the chip. I wish they did - we'd do it ourselves. So husband thinks it wasn't the direct hit over the road that did it, it was a hit to the phone lines, and that the chip was the last thing in the line, probably burning out when the router blew from the phone line, then the flash went back to the router power supply and the other way to the computer ethernet chip. </p><p></p><p>We get a lot of electric storms here, often without any rain (or very little). This one was a bad one probably because it was mostly dry. Once the rain began to fall. the lightning eased off. But the rain! In an hour, we got almost 3"- 75mm. There were small floods in surprising places. Our backyard is one big sand-hill - ever seen puddles on a sand-hill? Yup. Puddles. Big ones. My seedlings got washed right out of their pots, no soil left whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>And today, because we've had drizzly rain with occasional downpours, for days - husband rang to let me know, we're flooded in. And this afternoon we have to go "to the mainland" for difficult child 3's drama class and his sister has a doctor's appointment. Two cars. The long way round via the south road. An hour each way. Oh, joy.</p><p></p><p>I have to remind myself why we choose to live in such an isolated place.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 161614, member: 1991"] OK, it took me a while to get back online properly. At last I'm typing on the new computer. It will take a bit of getting used to, but it is lovely. We can't get wireless yet. The only computers in the house which could access it are this new one, and easy child 2/difficult child 2's laptop. My laptop and husband's laptop could not. Also, the wireless stiff wouldn't support our cable (which our older laptops rely on). There is a company here called"Unwired" as well as other companies which have a wireless service; would you believe we live 100 metres too far south? If we had a second storey to this house, or lived a little bit further north, no worries. The school in the village has wireless. They are one block north of us, line of sight to the city. We have line of sight to the city from the front fence. We used to unplug everything before a storm, but this one blew up in the middle of the night. And to unplug it (and plug it back in) I have to crawl under the desk. The computer was fine, except for the Ethernet chip. Unfortunately, it's all on the one board and they don't repair just the chip. I wish they did - we'd do it ourselves. So husband thinks it wasn't the direct hit over the road that did it, it was a hit to the phone lines, and that the chip was the last thing in the line, probably burning out when the router blew from the phone line, then the flash went back to the router power supply and the other way to the computer ethernet chip. We get a lot of electric storms here, often without any rain (or very little). This one was a bad one probably because it was mostly dry. Once the rain began to fall. the lightning eased off. But the rain! In an hour, we got almost 3"- 75mm. There were small floods in surprising places. Our backyard is one big sand-hill - ever seen puddles on a sand-hill? Yup. Puddles. Big ones. My seedlings got washed right out of their pots, no soil left whatsoever. And today, because we've had drizzly rain with occasional downpours, for days - husband rang to let me know, we're flooded in. And this afternoon we have to go "to the mainland" for difficult child 3's drama class and his sister has a doctor's appointment. Two cars. The long way round via the south road. An hour each way. Oh, joy. I have to remind myself why we choose to live in such an isolated place. Marg [/QUOTE]
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