Beepster
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Outwitted by a router...
Welp... that's 2 and a half hours I'll never get back. Yeesh.
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sharke
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 20:20:18
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I can never remember my password to get into the damn settings page of mine.
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 20:26:37
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Routers are most definitely bad magic.
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Beepster
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 20:31:37
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I'm very meticulous about keeping my passwords in order but I was setting this stupid thing up from scratch. The friggen' cable guys were supposed to leave a wireless modem which they did not so I had to scrounge a router until they get their BLEEP together. I had actually set this one up before but I really don't know what the problem was this time. After spending a bunch of time on the phone with the ISP and then a nice young man in India (who was initially pulling some data mining crap) I realized that the answers were buried deep within the router's manual. Very... VERY annoying. At least I can now fall asleep watching documentaries on youtube again. My brain refuses to shut off at night without them.
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sharke
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 21:11:36
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They never make this crap simple. "Plug and Play".....HA!
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bapu
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 21:18:35
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Is the router sorry?
Seems there's a lot of that going around lately.
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Beepster
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/04 21:28:13
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@sharke... I actually made a point of asking the ISP to leave a bleeping wireless modem here and now they are making me wait a couple weeks. I mean... they won't even just mail me one. Jerks. However this router seems to be working fabulously now so I might just tell them to get bent and they'll not be getting the rental fee on the new modem. Service chick the other day was acting all put out that I was asking about it too and I was being sweet as honey as usual.
@bapu... I forgave it. It's giving me some sweet speed... and I'm also realizing that I was right in my assumption that some arse was stealing my bandwidth in my old place despite many MANY snotty denials.
However... still many trials ahead. A lot of repairs that were promised on the new room were half assed or not done at all. Gotta sort that out now. What a werld... what a werld.
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 08:37:53
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I was having router issues... freezing up several times a day. The tech support folks told me the router was too old and that was the likely cause of the issues.... they could send me a new one.... but this one came with a monthly rental fee.
I went to Staples and bought a combo wireless wi-fi router and installed it myself. A call to the ISP got me the ADSL VPI & VCI numbber so it could decode the CenturyLink DSL.... and waaa laa I was back on the net.
But...... that's not the end of the story.... I have an IP camera which I can view on my LAN but also wanted to try to port forward it so I can view off site as well..... what a pain. I set up the port forwarding and now my Netflix won't connect with it's wi-fi connection.
So today... one of my projects is to default the router and start over.... or at least try to figure out how to get the Netflix working again.... I may just cut the crap and wire it to the switch.... and not mess with the wireless aspect.
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UbiquitousBubba
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 08:54:12
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After years of being unreasonably cheap, I succumbed about a month ago to the inevitable and bought a more expensive router. Since then, I've had better speed, no dropped connections, and no more calls from annoyed family members complaining that I had broken the Internet.
I also forwarded my phone to a call center in Bangalore.
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Old55
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 09:26:52
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I thought you guys were talking about cutting wood.
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 10:03:04
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UbiquitousBubba
After years of being unreasonably cheap, I succumbed about a month ago to the inevitable and bought a more expensive router. Since then, I've had better speed, no dropped connections ...
Same here. They are making them more and more idiot proof all the time. I haven't even been in to the RUI since I got mine a couple months ago. They randomly generate passwords now (It's not the standard 'admin' anymore, at least not on the one I got.) The password was printed on a sticker on the bottom of the router, well packed and hidden so it couldn't be seen until you opened the box. The new router I got is awesome. It has a USB port that you can plug any USB device in to. I hooked up my 500GB External Drive and I stream all my music and vids over my WiFi directly off that shared USB drive. It's like having an instant server without all the network hassles. Works like a charm. I can access all my stuff via my cell, laptop, DAW, and TV through my PS3 and my Blu Ra player's WiFi. Took seconds to set up. Plus I have Vonage hooked up as well. I can stream in HD from Amazon Prime, talk on the phone, and surf the web on my cell, all wirelessly at the same time. Never had so much as a hiccup, dropout, or slowdown. A big part of that is my ISP of course, but considering all the data that's flying through the router to multiple devices, and the amount of data, it's pretty amazing.
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Moshkiae
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 10:11:18
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Hi,
They are cheap enough these days ... up until 2 to 3 years ago, you had to fiddle with these to get them working ... and it was a big pain in the wazoo and bapu!
Today, bless his soul, the stuff is much easier and it IS plug and play ... I got a nice $90 dollar big G router ... and it was plug and play and I have not had a single issue with it in the year I have had it.
Get rid of that old stuff! Even folks that know these days do not deal with those things anymore!
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 10:15:33
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I rent our wireless router.
Now, when a lightning storm comes I can surf the net on my battery laptop and if the router gets zapped as it has 3x already I just pack it up drive in to the store front in town and they hand me a fresh one no questions asked.
It seems like the easiest way to always have the latest greatest router.
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drewfx1
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Re:Outwitted by a router...
2012/12/05 16:57:02
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mike_mccue
I rent our wireless router.
Now, when a lightning storm comes I can surf the net on my battery laptop and if the router gets zapped as it has 3x already I just pack it up drive in to the store front in town and they hand me a fresh one no questions asked.
It seems like the easiest way to always have the latest greatest router.
:-)
So you're engaging in ritual router sacrifice then? I'm not sure what to say.
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