Fixing the Network Connection

I came home from jin shin to no internetz - eek. A casual glance made me feel the cable modem was working. I should say two things: 1. I know less than nothing about networks (less because to think about them makes my head hurt) and 2. I'm blogging this because it'll happen again and it would be nice to have it written down. All you people who are laughing at my duh-edness, pipe down. We all have our strong points and those uncharted areas into which we have never set foot.

I plugged the computer directly into the modem. OK - that works fine.

Then went into settings - Network Connections, and into the LAN. I had no clue WHY I was doing it - I just went there even though there was (obviously) no LAN in operation.

I hit the Support tab and the Repair button. It repaired it. I reconnected it and now it's fine.

The mystery to me is: why did I go directly to the right place and do the right thing? It may've been simple but - holy moley, computers are complex. Anyway, it's fixed and that's splendid (shout out to Enjah who is going to the Hotel Spendid in Nice in a few weeks).

Can't live without teh intarwebz.