The internet is down I have four teens in the house

[DownToTheSeaAgain]

AIBU to go to bed and stay there until they can come and mend it on Wednesday?

And yes I have done all the checks. BT have confirmed it isn't something I can resolve.

And yes I can toggle data from my phone but enough to power YouTube hungry teenage gamers. I think not.

Youngest has been watching CITV with disgust. I told him that when I was a child we only had three tv stations and even they didn't start until afternoon.

I am not sure he will ever recover from the shock of imagining this terrible scenario.

We had this in Lockdown 1. They ended up watching Scooby Doo DVDs and playing hide and seek. Aged 13-16. And cooking a lot. It was a long 48 hours.

I've asked for a hub thingy. Hope it comes before school starts on Monday. Eldest teens have GCSE related tests on Monday and I'm sending all four of them with DH to work (works alone but has internet at his office space) if it hasn't on Monday which is making him sulk too.

It is going to be a loooong weekend

Omg do you have wine?!

Have wine.

Thank the lord for small mercies.

I don't want to alarm you, but.... We got cut off by BT on 18th March, the week before lockdown last year. They were meant to be upgrading it and reconnected within an hour, but they "accidentally oversold the capacity in the cabinet" and so were unable to reconnect us. 😳😳 They finally got us back online in....... MAY!!!! I have 3 teenagers. The eldest moved out because of it, and the other two decided to live with their dad for the duration. I was left to work from home connected to my very generous neighbours wifi which was dodgy as hell.

This was compounded only by BT managing to then proceed to bill me for the bastard time they didn't provide an actual service!!

I feel your pain. Wine, prayers and bed until next Wednesday I think!!

Came on to say time to get the monopoly out but at least 2 pp beat me to it 🤣

Similar happened to my sister, her network provider sent her a sim with unlimited data for a month. The problem was fixed but it took 8 days so that data was used for her lessons

Oh, total nightmare!
If they're all into gaming then tell them to agree on a specific (not-internet-dependent) game and you'll give a cash prize to whoever achieves the highest score by the time the internet's back on.
Then make youself scarce for the duration.

Actually move out and leave DH to it!!!

Just PRAY Openreach are not involved.

If they are it will be months- each thing they "fix" they break three other things.

They are one of the few organisations even worse than BT.

Have you got any of those quaint old fashioned things called books in the house? You know, that your teens could read?

Apparently they've got some offline games (except the youngest who is spitting angry watching CITV) but that doesn't solve the school problem and the lack of online interaction with friends (Lockdown innit)

DH is muttering about getting Boris involved. I am wishing him luck.
I have unearthed another bottle of wine.

It's going great.

and bed seem like the only options.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER the walls are slathered in them. I think the teens see them as some sort of decoration.

Oh good lord. This could be the best begging thread ever because I’m sure every parent of teens on here would send you wine or gin in sympathy.

You are in my thoughts 💐

Thinking of you OP

We had this during March last year BT too, 2 teens one doing y 13 Alevels one y11 GCSE (this is before we knew exams were canceled) plus there addiction to gaming! Was a nightmare we were off for 13 long days 😩
Doesn’t help that my DH is a manager for BT and we get the damn broadband free longest two weeks ever!
You have my sympathies and sending lots of 🍷

💐💐💐💐💐

Sympathies

Ds2 wifi gave up the ghost earlier today...i knew it was broken cos he asked if id like to watch a movie with him

Then dh fixed it 😩

We are moving house. Have an overlap between the 2. Old house got disconnected on Monday. New house was supposed to be connected on tuesday. Is now not going to be until the 1st March!!!!

DH is walking around saying he has lost faith in the modern world. DC1 is having a shower as a leisure activity (he's been in there half an hour at least) DC2 is actually practicing the piano DC3 is watching Bugs Bunny DVD's and DC4 is 'cooking'.

I am in bed. With wine.

Thank you for the

Did you survive?

is that you mrs M?

Yes @Laudaroc AKA Mrs T. Hope you are good xx

And the internet came back today. I think I may have a sort of PTSD from the last few days. Roll on spring, wine and the end of lockdown.

[quote DownToTheSeaAgain]@SamBeckettsLastLeap so I pour the wine into the WiFi box? BT didn't suggest that but I am so desperate I might give it a go. [/quote]
I'm late to this thread but if you pour enough wine into the teenagers they will stop complaining about the lack of WiFi.