God and my Router

Does God care about the internet? More importantly, does God care about my internet access?

Until yesterday, I would have said, no. Why would He care? There are far more important issues in the world, than whether I can use my dialup and DSL on the same phone line. Yet, He does have the whole omnipotent thing going, so I guess there's always room for something new.

See, I've been having trouble using my dialup with the DSL. I could take apart my computer and slap in a network card and use DSL on it, but I simply don't want to. I know it's faster, better, blah, blah, blah. I don't want, and I'm not going to. I like the machine I use for dialup and I'm not taking any unnecessary risks with it. Not going to happen.

I was ready to have the DSL taken out or, at least, moved to the main phone line. I pulled out all my Verizon paperwork to call them in the morning. I put the paperwork on my keyboard, because my desk is filled with things I'm getting to, eventually. I really only get to the things I've put on the keyboard, and that's only so I can move them from the keyboard to use it.

That was two nights ago. That night, I was saying my prayers and part of me was thinking about how I'll miss using the DSL on my other systems. Some say, God doesn't talk to people. Some say, anyone who thinks He does is schizophrenic. All I know is sometimes when I'm praying a little voice tells me the simplest solution to some problem I think is too much for me.
I'm sure people without faith would say it's merely my subconscious, but when it's a problem I've tried to solve and can come up with no solution, even through waiting for my lazy subconscious to suggest something, prayer works.

The little voice said, "Turn on the firewall in the router, instead of on the computers." Hmm... would that work? My problem had been hang-ups and dropped connections. I couldn't figure out what was causing them. Maybe, if the router isn't firewalled, it's getting hit and that added 'noise' is making my dialup crash?

The next day, yesterday, I tried it. I turned the firewall on in the router. Last night I spent two hours reading all about the crazy belief that telomeres prove evolution. TWO HOURS - with nary a dropped line.

God sure knows his internet access.