This is what happened to us yesterday. It was very frustrating. I was letting one of our housecleaners do this installation because I find I get too frustrated at 76 because there are just so many bells and whistles you have to jump through to get to an installation these days. So, I prefer at this point that someone younger installs things like routers and modems (I think they are combined in what is installed now and not separate things like they used to be).
So, last night because the whole system was down we didn't have wifi or streaming last night which was kind of disappointing given the amount of work we all did trying to install a new "Modem" my housekeeper says they are called (because they are combined now just different than the old days).
But, we still had our TIVO with up to 1000 hours or recorded stuff on it and Cable TV with HBO and Showtime too. So, it wasn't like some power outages where everything including cable and wifi and power and heater and everything goes out and I have to start up the generator outside to even have light or refrigerator in the house.
However, (will wonders never cease?) my wife who is "No Tech" in her background with three degrees and one Master's in Business got the system up and running this morning before I woke up. I was very surprised at how frustrated she had to be to get all this up and running again and here is the scary part. She even renamed our Wifi and created a new password in words people can remember too which was "What?" for me because I have never seen her do something like this ever.
She must have needed her computer for business or something and just got it done. Amazing!
Also, we had had the old and new modem for some time and realized we were paying about 50 dollars extra a month for having two (one we were using and the new one that needed to be installed).
One of the tricks we learned is that our provider insists that you call them when you install your new modem or else you cannot install it. This is what happened when we didn't know this about a month or so ago and couldn't get the new one to work so our house cleaner just reinstalled the old one so at least we would have the old one working. Then something comes on my wife's computer that says: "If you pay 20 dollars a month to us we will make sure your system works better". I told my wife I thought this was a scam of some sort and not buy into this.
So, regarding tech stuff and computers you really need more help these days as time goes on and people try to take advantage of you coming and going more than I ever have seen before in various different ways.
It makes me wonder whether having WIFI is even worth it these days or not!
A friend said: "Necessity is the mother of invention". This likely makes more sense than anything else.
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