Things Appear To Be Much Better

Things are certainly on the improve.  Chris, Wendy, and the grand children Andrew and Emily arrived here at our home around 3:30 yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon.  Trish had collected them from Brisbane airport after they flew in from Melbourne, they grabbed some quick lunch and then headed here to the Sunshine Coast.

If they arrived here at 3:30pm, then the two grand kids were in the pool before 3:45pm!  It wasn't long before several of the adults joined them.  The day was overcast so they arrived to a relatively cool day.  It will certainly be hotter over the next few days.

After a BBQ tea they were back in the pool again enjoying an after dark swim.  The two kids slept on blow up mattresses in the lounge room under the fan.  However 14 year old Andrew decided the couch was a better option for him and that is where he eventually slept.

Right now they are on their way to Australia Zoo.  Now we have the 'old' car here on the Sunshine Coast they are off using that.  Chris is very afraid the car will break down and he will be stranded despite the same car recently travelling around 2000k's from Melbourne back to the Sunshine Coast.

We expect them home around mid afternoon for a cool swim!

Now to my internet connection.  The small picture above is graphic representation of a download coming through the internet.  And that is how it should be, rock solid green.  I am currently using the old 'Billion" modem/router.  I can't say there hasn't been a dropout because there has.  There appeared to be one dropout yesterday (Tues) during some extensive downloading.

I have just now (Weds am) 'reset' the modem/router after updating some settings.  I now remember at one occasion we returned this modem/router to "Factory Settings", erasing the settings I had added.  I like to set a 'fixed' LAN address for the Media Player and also the printer.  After adjusting these settings, the modem/router must be restarted so therefore it goes off line and reconnects on restart. This will show up as a dropout at my ISP.

I have the 'dead' TP-Link modem router sitting beside the fully functioning Billion.  I rang TP-Link yesterday about the problem I was having and before they will replace it under its 3 year warranty they want me to update the 'firmware'.  They believe this will confirm if the problem is software or the modem/router hardware has failed.  This task will have to wait till after Chris and family return home.