I have a love/hate relationship with my service provider. When it works, it works very, very well. When it doesn’t work, all hell breaks loose.

The past few days, I’ve noticed an odd slowdown to my wired computer. The laptop running wirelessly has been fine, but the wired computer, my main computer, has been running oddly. It’s been having delays connecting to websites, etc. Once it’s connected, it’s fine. I figured the Mac needed to be cleaned up, so I started backing stuff up, repairing permissions, etc. No big deal. Then last night happened.

It started off with the same weird slowdown. I didn’t bother messing with any of it, and after getting myself prepped for raid later in the evening, I headed offline for a little supper. When it came time to log in, I was faced with even more slowdowns beyond what I’d had before and a 500+ queue that bounced between 10 minutes and 35 minutes. Once I was finally in, I saw the call go out for raid invites, so I sent my tell to the raid leader. Nothing. Sent it again. Nothing. Then it hit me: no one on the screen is moving. Cue the reboot router/modem/computer dance. Too bad that it didn’t work, because 10 minutes later, I had ripped my router out of the loop and plugged straight in to the modem, rebooted everything again, and was frantically IMing the Hunter Class Lead to let her know I was on the way in.

Once I was finally in, I ran to SSC, caught up with everyone, had a ton of manna biscuits tossed at me along with buffs and joined in the killing spree. Hydross and Lurker both got one-shot kills, and I managed to pick up a Nether Vortex along the way. About halfway through the trash to Tidewalker, everyone froze on my screen. Yep, internet fall down and go boom. Another 10 minutes later, still no internet, and I now have a headache from swearing. Why yes, I did call it a night at that point. At least all the raid was doing then was Tidewalker trash runs without actually killing him.

This morning, I plugged everything back in. Yep! Everything’s working fine like nothing happened! Arrrrrrrrgh…

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