HELP: I was disconnect from the world

Coming back from my holiday, I found out that the modem broke down. All lights were blinking, resetting and restarting did not help. Therefore I had no internet and no telephony (since my telephone is connected thru SIP).

On top of that my router zoned out and did not do what I wanted it to. So I had to do all kinds of boring configuration of devices for my home network to be up and running again.

Since the modem is a lease device from my ISP, some dude came by and installed the new device. A modem/router with 4 port hub and build it wireless LAN... Great, so why did I buy all this expensive equipment a couple of months ago??

So I decided to no use the Wireless LAN from the Ubee device for several reasons:

• The box is in the broom-closet so reception sucks, to say the least
• The box is pre-configured and I cannot change all that I want

So I disabled everything and use it as a simple modem only.

Then my actual router gave me a hard time up to the point where I was not able to connect to it anymore. I think it missed me, while I was on holidays. I did not even try to VPN into my home network while I was away.

So after a long evening yesterday (I never get over my jet-lag this way) I finally have my home network up and running as it should.

Next on my list:

• get new work laptop operational 
• transfer files from old laptop to new laptop

Oh wait ... maybe I should do some actual work ;-)