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Ask HN: What do you do when the Internet goes down?
- marek_leisk2 4y agoPlay PS4 or some music in Bitwig.
- bookreader11 4y ago
- pasttense01 4y agoI have a very large number of eBooks on my computer that I can read.
- zhte415 4y agoReconnect.
- themodelplumber 4y agoWe had a fiber optic cut a few years back that was weird in that way. No cell data, no cable internet. I made plans to leave town so I could do my work, and it would have been a 30 minute drive to get to the nearest place that had internet. Nobody in the neighborhood knew what was going on at first. Eventually I turned on the FM radio and within a couple minutes they had an update as to what was going on and when a fix was expected. It was some hours before service was restored. Overall the feeling sucked because it hit in the middle of a busy day and there was this question of A) how long will this take, given that I'm working on something, and B) how big a deal is it that I can't get any notifications from servers or other services? Since that time I picked up a bank of scanner radios and put some content I enjoy on the LAN. So it's less of an issue, and things feel way more plugged in when problems occur. But it's still annoying to think it might happen again for any number of reasons.
- 6510 4y agoProgress unfinished thoughts and make new ones.
- nickmyersdt 4y agoRefresh. Frown. Close browser. Restart browser. Frown. Open command line. Ping. Frown. Switch from LAN (power line to router) to WiFI. Frown. Reboot router. Frown. Switch to mobile hotspot. Carry on.
- rozenmd 4y agoI visit https://hackernews.onlineornot.com https://hackernews.onlineornot.com to see if it's actually down, if it is, I swap to a 4G hotspot and keep on coding.
- pryelluw 4y agoNap.
- epirogov 4y agooffline hours are considerably better suited to programming for me :-D