So we had an odd outage here at the Maddox house.\u00a0 Internet quit working.\u00a0 Phone quit working.\u00a0 FIOS boxes couldn’t access the Internet either (tested On Demand, Widgets, etc).\u00a0 So I called Verizon tech support.<\/p>\n
Me: Yeah, everything except for the television video stream has quit.
Tech: Have you changed anything on your router?
Me: Not for about a year now.
Tech: Let me run some tests and check.\u00a0 Oh I found the problem, your wireless on your router was turned off.
Me: Yeah, it’s been off for about a year now.\u00a0 I’m using a Wireless N router.
Tech: I turned your router’s Wireless back on.\u00a0 Did that fix things?
Me (thinking): WTF?\u00a0 The wireless has been off for a year and why would that affect the FIOS boxes and phones anyway.
Me: Nope.\u00a0 Maybe you should reset the equipment here?
Tech: Well, let’s see if turning the wireless on fixed things.
Me (beating my forehead so hard I made it flat): Um, ok,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So we had an odd outage here at the Maddox house.\u00a0 Internet quit working.\u00a0 Phone quit working.\u00a0 FIOS boxes couldn’t access the Internet either (tested On Demand, Widgets, etc).\u00a0 So I called Verizon tech support. Me: Yeah, everything except for … Continue reading