First of all, a few ground rules - I live in Kenya. I also have wireless internet in my apartment and that internet isn't dialup. This in and of itself is a small miracle, which I tried to remind myself last week as I constantly fought with the internet to get it up and running. Despite the fact that it made me bone up on my troubleshooting skills, largely, it was just a big pain in the neck. Carolyn informed me that something was interfering with the Tenwek server, which was over my head technologically so I wondered what was going on but kept up my daily skirmishes unabated.
That is, until today.
Today I decided to lug my computer back up to IT because the internet was not working again and I was very confused. I was told that the problem might be in the modem and that I should bring that up. I did. However, I forgot the power cord. Oops. They told me to just come back at 2:30 with the modem and power cord. Okay. I can handle simple directions most of the time so I continued on with my crazy day and waited for 2:30 to arrive.
After spending some time at the Hospital I returned home to hear Chuck call me from their porch. Not terribly surprising, but he said he had something embarrassing to tell me. Hmmm... I was then informed that the internet problems had somehow been coming from the modem Carolyn and I had inherited from other missionaries here! Oops! The folks at IT told Chuck that a mzungu (white) young lady with blue glasses had come up and, well, I'd been caught red handed in my accidental internet trouble causing.
Needless to say I turned very red and rushed up to IT. Currently they're running a bunch of tests on the modem and then they'll figure out how to get it working again. We have a temporary one and I'm very thankful we found the problem, even though I feel very sheepish.
The End.
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