I went up to our lake house late yesterday to mow the grass (the spousal unit had dental surgery on Wednesday and wasn’t feeling up to the trip).

Arriving late in the afternoon I was able to finish the "back 40” and decided to quit for the day (forgot I had already walked two mile in the morning!).

I started again early this morning and during an early break thought I would take a wild chance and called the Onalaska number for Suddenlink. Much to my surprise a lady answered, I told her a long winded tale of woe about our recalcitrant internet connection…five years of problems!  To my even great surprise she cheefully said they had a technician in the area and he would be there shortly…indeed he was…within :45 minutes!

“A new guy”…I’ve met many! I told him the history and he said (like all the others)…”no problem…I’ll have it fixed in a minute”.

Well it took a while, he hummed and hawed, checked and rechecked and finally went back to the local hub, way down at the end of our street and confirmed that the signal was weak and “tweeked” the amplifier to a higher setting…seem we are at the “end of the line”...seem I am often at the "end of the line".

By the way, our neighbor also has Suddenlink and has no problem…but… you guessed it…she’s on another line.

Anyway, boosting the amplifier seems to be working. “There”, he said proudly, “you should have no more problems”. I skeptically replied “we will see”?

Join us next week for the next episode of “adventures in cyber land”…0’s and 1’s to ya..