Connection down - but now working

Just a little positive for a change. Came home Thursdays to see my HH3 with a yellow broadband light. Rebooted everything and it seemed to be OK for a little while, then disconnected. It then kept doing the same, the DSL light on the modem would start flashing then remain steady for a bit and eventually it just kept flashing.
My wife called support and got through fairly quickly. They did a line test, called back and said an engineer would need to come out. The earliest appointment I could get was on Saturday but I was going to be out all day so the next available would be today (Tues). Not much that could be done with the bank hols. BT called to confirm the engineer appointment for this morning and they turned up early and swapped the modem out. Apparently engineer said there had been a faulty batch and mine was one of em. And we should be getting a rebate for the days it was down.
So not all problems are a massive endurance test.
Poplar exchange

Around 95% of the time these gadgets just work sometimes we grumble a little because they are not working well enough.
We however reserve our groans & irritable behaviour for the hapless 5% which either always let us down or stop working when we most need them.
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