Welp... that's 2 and a half hours I'll never get back. Yeesh.

I can never remember my password to get into the damn settings page of mine. 

Routers are most definitely bad magic.

  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. 

They never make this crap simple. "Plug and Play".....HA!

Is the router sorry?

Seems there's a lot of that going around lately.

@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.

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. 

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.

I thought you guys were talking about cutting wood.