I have spoken a little about this on my InstaStories but we are now on router number 5 in the last 7 months.
Our routers keep getting struck by lightning. We do have one of those lightning surge adaptors but, to be honest, when I follow the instructions on the pamphlet, the internet doesn’t work, so obviously something’s going wrong. I then attach it how it makes sense to me (which is also incorrect).
After the last new router, I just decided I cannot go on like this so now I manually switch on the router and insert the phone cable every morning. And when I go to bed, I do the same thing in reverse.
When it starts raining and there’s lightning, we switch off everything and so far, so good – the router’s still working.
What this has done for me:
- Intentional living because when it does rain, I actually get real things done in the house instead of getting caught in an internet coma.
- Better sleep because of not scrolling a screen before bedtime
- More real reading at night especially as the evenings cool down because I just switch the internet off early realizing that I’m probably not going to want to get up later to switch it off.
- Less mindless scrolling in the mornings when I wake up and many mornings, I just grab my book to read and only switch on the internet an hour or so later because I have to physically get up and out of bed.
The only thing is – I often get to my phone and see 18 or 25 WhatsApp messages. I actually just get to those whenever because as you know, I’m not a big fan of responding to anything on demand 🙂
