Interwhat?

Sometimes things can be a little bit frustrating around here.

The internet is one of those things. Let me give a few examples.

Around the time of my mom's birthday, the internet had been down for a few days. Well, it turned out that it had been down for almost a week on the other side of the orphanage, but had only been useless on my side for about three days at this point. I was really hoping to use the internet so that the birthday gift for my mom wouldn't arrive over a week late, but, alas, I was out of luck.

I asked the tech guy here if could fix the internet. He said he would, he'd reset the routers, it should be fine, don't worry about it. The next day, the internet still didn't work. Mike tried resetting the router in the library himself to see if that did anything, but still nothing. I asked the tech guy the next day if anything was wrong, and he said no, but I heard through the grapevine that he suspected someone was stealing our internet wireless signals and thus might have changed the password. So I asked him if he changed the password, and he said no.

The next day, he told someone that the bill for the internet had not been paid yet, and that's why it wasn't working. But I noticed that the director of the orphanage was using the internet with no problem wired into his computer in the office, which makes absolutely no sense if you think you have a problem with the internet.

Finally fed up, I called the tech guy into the office and said, "Okay, he has internet there. We have internet. Reset this router." I pointed toward the router in the office. He unplugged it, plugged it in, repeated, reset, and then, magically, it worked.

If only he had done that days ago.

Once, later, in the library, we noticed that everyone's internet seemed to have uber-died. I mean, sometimes it dies, and leads you to the website of the router company, or the internet company, or something like that. But this time it was like giving us anti-internet. Anywho, I went to reset the router in the library just to see if that would fix the problem.

While there, I noticed that the ethernet slots on the back of the router were labelled as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, and WAN. The ethernet cable was plugged into the port labelled "1." And I remembered that the most common error that I would get when using the internet was the router company website/splash page saying, "No ethernet cable connected to WAN port!" So I took the ethernet cable out of "1" and plugged it into "WAN." Everyone's internet worked again, and I haven't seen the "No ethernet cable connected to WAN port!" warning one time since then.

It's kind of funny that the person who did it wrong gets paid and the person who put it right has to pay just to live here. Oh well.

Peace out.