Hello there, LR.
We, too were plunged into the internet-less void this week when the people installing (totally unwanted and un needed) water and sewer lines severed our link to 15mbps internet.
In their defense, said line is 1/4 mile long, laid flat on the ground across a road, two driveways, two front lawns and four vacant lots. A neighborhood confab yielded one house which had been spared, and we suggested that we should all put lawn chairs in her front yard and ask her to share the key for her wireless router.
The following day, she was out and some of the rest of us were back.
In the interim, and perhaps this might help, my better techy half reminded me that my cell phone can create a 'hot spot' to run my laptop even without our usual wireless internet. It saved me a 10 mile drive to the nearest library and carried the day until service was restored at fin towers south.
It happened to occur during a banking transaction reminding me, not for the first time, just how dependent on the internet we here have become.
