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The problem with the broadband and internet seems to be the AV Homeplugs. I use them to create a network using the house’s electrical wiring. They have all stopped communicating with each other, after nearly two years in place. I had to open the emergency box with the old network cables in (I keep lots of things like this), and do an emergency re-wire. All seems to be working, for the moment. Re-configuring of it all will have to wait until later. We decided that, as the bright, clear weather is continuing, we would go out for a walk, and set out for Grasmere, to another really cold day with fabulous clarity and views. A quick circuit of the small lake took a couple of hours, then into Ambleside for tea at out favourite teashop, which turned out to be closed. Never mind, next time! Back to the house and the task of sorting out the network. I decided to do a factory re-set on the AV plugs, followed by re-doing the process of re-linking them together. All this seemed to go well, and after I had put everything back as it was amd turned everything on I realised that the traffic indicator lights were flickering as they had been before yesterday, when everything had been static. A good sign, I felt, and indeed everythnig is now back as before, and I’m doing this on the PC. All the spare stuff is back in its boxes, and tidyness reigns.

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