August 21, 2012
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How happy it is to stay connected
On Sunday, my home desktop internet connections suddenly – for no obvious reasons – fail. Meanwhile, my laptop and my wife’s laptop connected to the internet properly. Chi and I tried many different ways, including restart the computer; disable and then re-enable the wireless connections; use LAN line instead of wireless; re-set and re-boot the modem-router; etc. etc. All failed. The strange thing was that my desktop PC could still pick up an IP address from my modem-router.
I then contacted my computer scientist friend at the university that I previously worked. He spent one and a half hour helping me, over the phone, trying to sort things out, making diagnosis using command prompt, and then changing registry etc. etc. But it still did not work. All failed.
At last, Chi and I decided to do a system restore. We restored the computer system to the state just before my desktop computer last Windows update.
And funny enough, after system restore and a restart, all in a sudden, the computer was connected back to the internet. I quickly sent an email to my friend. And he replied that there are so many mysteries in our computer, many of which we would never find out why……
Now, I am finally back online after two days “black out”…. I found that I am very internet-dependent, up to the point even though I still have alternatives (my laptop internet connection stays working fine and I have internet access at work too), I have become so annoyed that I could not sleep properly last night….
Anyway, “hello world!” How happy it is, to stay “connected”.
