Turn it off and on again

A few simple words which took a long time to sink in.

This is sort of a follow-up to 'Netflix Crashed!', https://holandt.blogspot.com/2021/03/netflix-crashed.html, Netflix continued to be affected and then the new development, so did the websites I was visiting. But because Netflix was affected first, I put it all down to Netflix. And then I took out the small receiver for my WiFi and put it back in the USB port. The change was almost immediate, the pages loaded. After a while, the pages struggled to load, all of them. I started thinking it was the internet. However, there was no reason why that should be, nothing about the environment had changed.

After this being the second day with loading issues, I was frustrated. I had restarted my computer, played around with the turning the WiFi on and off, and basically it would work for a while and then it would struggle. I still thought it was Netflix because that is what started it all and it seemed the most logical conclusion. Sometimes, when you're at the end of you tether, you have a epiphany and it's simple. I unplugged the receiver from the USB port and I plugged it into another one. The cable in the other USB port I switched to where the receiver had been. Everything worked!

Don't overcomplicate things. Turn it off and on again so to speak.

- A.M.