... this morning!
It started yesterday, or very early Monday morning. My web host's server crashed which meant I could not access my web site. Not a big deal and they said they were restoring everything, that it should be business as usual Monday afternoon. They didn't and it wasn't. Same thing when I went to bed last night - no access. Usually, on a Monday evening I transfer my pdf files to the server so the printer can get them bright and early Tuesday. But she doesn't start until about 7:00 so I figured I could upload them this morning in plenty of time for her.
Wrong - the server is still down.
Plan B - I call her and get her server's ftp address so I can upload them there. She's on a Mac and they use a strange naming convention but I finally figured out how to connect. Another problem, the site keeps disconnecting and when it is connected, the transfer rate is bytes per minute. OK, usually that means my modem/router needs restarted. Tried that. No luck. Shut down computer, shut down router, waited a couple of moments, restarted everything. Nothing works - cannot connect to Internet at all.
Call Cincy Bell, who I have my Internet connection through, get stuck with some person who barely speaks English but knows she has to be super polite. We try everything, for an hour or so before she decides something is wrong and will have to send a tech to my home. Still no files sent to the printer, who is miles away.
Call the office and find out that computer is working so I burn a CD of the files and drive there. Try doing the FTP thing again, but keep getting times out. Did I mention I do not have broadband at the office - just dial-up?
Decide I will e-mail her the files, but Fuse has a 5 meg limit on e-mail messages. One page was seven megs but thankfully I redid it at a lower resolution and it was 1.5 megs. Send the files to her. Wait a few moments, call her, just to find out only one of three messages went through. Resend the other messages again, wait ten minutes, call and she got another one.
Try sending the largest message again, and again, and again. It's 3.5 megs, tiny on broadband, huge on dial-up. Notice that McAfee is scanning the outbound messages (it was installed by the factory - that is why I detest buying computers ready to run when plugged in). It thinks the pdf files are infected and refuses to send them.
Cannot find a way to turn off the scan - did I say I hate McAfee, so I go through Add/Remove programs and zap it. Resend the message. This time, it starts working. But remember, this is dial-up. Twenty-five minutes later it is finished, I call the printer to check and everything it good.
Come home, hook everything back up the way it was (after turning it all off again) turn it back on. Not only does the connection work, but the server is back to operating!
Tomorrow, I'm getting up on the other side of the bed!
Mike
It started yesterday, or very early Monday morning. My web host's server crashed which meant I could not access my web site. Not a big deal and they said they were restoring everything, that it should be business as usual Monday afternoon. They didn't and it wasn't. Same thing when I went to bed last night - no access. Usually, on a Monday evening I transfer my pdf files to the server so the printer can get them bright and early Tuesday. But she doesn't start until about 7:00 so I figured I could upload them this morning in plenty of time for her.
Wrong - the server is still down.
Plan B - I call her and get her server's ftp address so I can upload them there. She's on a Mac and they use a strange naming convention but I finally figured out how to connect. Another problem, the site keeps disconnecting and when it is connected, the transfer rate is bytes per minute. OK, usually that means my modem/router needs restarted. Tried that. No luck. Shut down computer, shut down router, waited a couple of moments, restarted everything. Nothing works - cannot connect to Internet at all.
Call Cincy Bell, who I have my Internet connection through, get stuck with some person who barely speaks English but knows she has to be super polite. We try everything, for an hour or so before she decides something is wrong and will have to send a tech to my home. Still no files sent to the printer, who is miles away.
Call the office and find out that computer is working so I burn a CD of the files and drive there. Try doing the FTP thing again, but keep getting times out. Did I mention I do not have broadband at the office - just dial-up?
Decide I will e-mail her the files, but Fuse has a 5 meg limit on e-mail messages. One page was seven megs but thankfully I redid it at a lower resolution and it was 1.5 megs. Send the files to her. Wait a few moments, call her, just to find out only one of three messages went through. Resend the other messages again, wait ten minutes, call and she got another one.
Try sending the largest message again, and again, and again. It's 3.5 megs, tiny on broadband, huge on dial-up. Notice that McAfee is scanning the outbound messages (it was installed by the factory - that is why I detest buying computers ready to run when plugged in). It thinks the pdf files are infected and refuses to send them.
Cannot find a way to turn off the scan - did I say I hate McAfee, so I go through Add/Remove programs and zap it. Resend the message. This time, it starts working. But remember, this is dial-up. Twenty-five minutes later it is finished, I call the printer to check and everything it good.
Come home, hook everything back up the way it was (after turning it all off again) turn it back on. Not only does the connection work, but the server is back to operating!
Tomorrow, I'm getting up on the other side of the bed!
Mike
