The Great Disconnection

It was horrible! MyISP gave me a major scare when all of my internet connections started failing. Browsers refused to work, hell, even chat programs disconnected themselves and refused to reconnect. Worst of all, my router reported that everything was A-OK. Went around my other computers and found that they had the same problem. I was beginning to worry that the router decided to have an unscheduled break when I thought to fire up all my chat programs and set them on reconnect. It turned out that the ISP was (probably) conducting some maintenance out of the scheduled maintenance time slot. The disruption was 2 hours in advance of the scheduled maintenance time. Scary. Especially when my computer hardware has a knack for conking out at the most inconvenient times and in a rather abrupt manner.