My shiny new laptop runs the 64-bit version of Vista Home.  I started noticing some oddities with connecting to the wireless network.  It would start up and connect, but it would say "local only".  No biggie: click, go to the necessary screen, click on the "X" in between the icon representing the network and the Internet, and tell it to repair the connection.  Except . . . I would have to do this several times before it would work.  And I seemed to have to do t...

This isn't strictly a problem, just something people considering FIOS should know. This morning, I first noticed that Internet service was down.  I went downstairs and found that cable TV was down too.  And the phone line was dead.  I called Verizon and they ran a test.  That little box they put in the basement?  It had no power.  I clicked the circuit breaker and in no time at all, everything was back.  FIOS was running in all its glory, so to celebrate I b...