Modems and keyboards

[dimity_blue]

Casper decided, in his wisdom, to be sick on my keyboard today. However, I had two spare keyboards (one came with my new PC, one came with my new monitor), so I decided to swap my older keyboard for a new one. Heck, it's different! It's all flat and the keys aren't raised at all. ::eyes keyboard:: It's a little bit weird to type on, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

It also has a volume control on it. If it works (and it should do, seeing as this is the keyboard that came with the PC), it'll be ever so handy.

As for my modem, I'd been having a lot of trouble with my connection dropping a lot of the time. As some of the lights on the front have stopped working, I phoned BT, thinking I probably needed a new modem. They didn't take me through any tests on my modem at all! They just tested the line, then said they needed to send out an engineer. Rather than sit in waiting for an engineer, I went off to eBay and bought an identical modem and swapped it over. Fingers crossed, but it seems to be working just fine.

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Ewww! Don't cats do the cutest things? *g*

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

From the "eeew!" and the look on Jim's face, I suspect that's sarcasm. :oD

[leesa_perrie]

Ah, the pleasures of owning cats never ceases to abound...!!

It's a good thing you had a spare keyboard, even if it feels a bit weird right now - though ew, what a way to lose your old one!

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I know! I was unimpressed!

[amanuesis2.livejournal.com]

Good for you to have some in spare, don't know about the joys of owning a cat (dog owner), but I've spilled some OJ on mine a while ago and I can imagine what fun it would be for you *hugs*
As for your modem..I'll keep my fingers crossed that the connection will hold, but I'm really interested to hear, what the engineer "found"

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I never saw an engineer. I decided to try replacing the modem myself, and my connection seems fine! Before I changed it, I was being dumped as least 8 times a day - and sometimes I seemed to spend a *lot* of time waiting to reconnect/reconnecting/realising I'd been dumped. So far, I haven't been dumped once since changing the modem. It's quite an improvement. :oD