We just went through over 3 weeks waiting for the technician to repair our Internet. Some junkie had stolen the cable at the node for the copper. That was in the summer. Maybe July.....

So yesterday morning it went out again. This time, I'm thinking it's the 25 pair wire that the technician said had a bunch of "bad pairs" in it and if I understood him correctly, there was no spares remaining. Our neighbors are still online. This time the expected wait until the technician shows up is a mere 2 weeks. If they have to replace the 25 pair cable, according to what I was told last time, the technician doesn't have the equipment or materials to lay new cable so another work order and wait time is involved.

So ... The last time this occurred I had an interesting thing happen and it's happening again.
For some reason, my office computer is running it's programs extremely slow. I have a billing program for my business and open office for word processing. Both ran like molasses in winter yesterday. I was trying to write up an AAR (after action report) for a recent K9 search and I couldn't get the program to open the file. After 3 reboots I gave up. I'll be running my DAW today to finish the guitar tracking for a new song. Last time we had no Internet, the DAW took forever to do certain things. As soon as the Internet was restored, it went back to running like I normally expect it to.
Am I crazy? Wait.... Don't answer that. Let me put it another way..... Is it possible that the Internet connection is somehow responsible for the noticable speed difference in the programs or am I imagining it?

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