Sorry I have been gone so long.  I have two new clients for my website business, for a total of 3 websites.  I’m so overwhelmed that I just couldn’t wake up today, and should have spent the whole day (and yesterday) working. 

My excuse yesterday was that I took some of these ill-gotten gains and ordered DSL, so I can work faster, and had to take the check to the bank, discuss some issues with them, and then found my DSL setup package got here already… had a couple issues installing it. 

First, my computer did not have the driver software for my Ethernet port, and I didn’t have an extra USB port… so I had to find the driver.  Not easy to do… but eMachines LiveSupport gave me the model of the motherboard and I found that all the drivers were available on that site — if you used the right number. 

Got that installed… and my CD-RW stopped working.  I’ve been having that problem lately, and it seems to be caused by my P2P programs, which means (sigh) I’m going to have to give up stealing music.

So then my computer is working fine, and I go to install the DSL stuff.  Had to crawl around on the floor a few times, got everything set up… and it didn’t work.

After a call with a nice man in the Phillippines (hardly any accent at all), I discovered that it was the dreaded User Error… the DSL filter was plugged into the phone jack just fine, but I plugged the DSL line into the jack marked “Phone” instead of the one marked “DSL”.  Fixing that solved the problem.

But today, as stated, I ‘m exhausted.  I should be working.  Oh well, when I get back to working, a lot of things will go faster — uploads and downloads, checking the website to see how it worked, etc.

I’m starting to pack for the weekend, going to SerpentStone Litha Gather in Eastern TN.

Hugs,
Me