AT&T Broadband’s connection to the house went down today a little after 1 PM. I called their tech support line and learned the earliest they could send a tech was June 17, 9 days later.
And they wonder why I don’t want AT&T to handle my local phone service?
As it turns out, service was restored about 2 hours later. I unplugged the “modem” and let it sit, then powered it back up a couple of times: finally, after I had rigged the airport base station to handle calling out and routing LAN traffic, the status lights indicated service was restored. Sure enough . . . .