Tet's Journal: Just what I need :-(

We had a power cut this morning. The second in two days (yesterday was at work, this one was at home). It was bigger than I thought, too, extending at least as far as the tube station, as I found out when I tried to go to work (trains weren't stopping due to the lack of power at the station). But it wasn't such a big deal. I went to work, reasonably confident that by the time I got home, the power would be restored. Sure enough, I returned home to find all the machines powered up. The main server was sitting waiting for a root password because the journal recovery had failed, and it needed an explicit fsck. Fair enough. But after fixing that, everything appeared to be back to normal. Except is seemed more than a little sluggish. You see, after the return of power, my ADSL router had decided to connect at a whopping 256Kb/s down[1]. Nor was it just a freak of the line state when the power returned. Disconnecting and reconnecting gives me exactly the same speed. Naturally, my utterly useless ISP is closed at times when it would actually be useful to call them. So I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning to get them to try testing the line, and generally failing to have a clue about anything, if past experiences with their technical support team are anything to go by :-(

[1] And 512Kb/s up, FWIW. The A in ADSL usually means you get much better bandwidth down than up. Not so here, it seems...