I spent some time on the phone with Earthlink this afternoon, and did enough troubleshooting to prove to them that my connection problems were not in my house–that it was, in fact, AT&T’s fault. The nice lady with an Indian accent wrote up a trouble ticket…and, astonishingly, my connection was back up just a few minutes after I got off of the phone. It’s been up ever since. This is remarkable, as it’s been down most of the time for the past week, and has usually only been up during the early morning.

Not that I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth, mind you, but I’m quite curious to know whether there’s any causal relationship, here, or whether it just happens to be up this evening.

In other news, I still don’t have my laptop back from the shop; it seems they are Waiting For A Part. Ugh.

Update: when I tried to post this, the connection went down. It came back after I power-cycled the DSL modem, which is a nice change.