Stupid router.

[camwyn]

Og here. Og get new thing in cave other day. Og bring DSL in cave for Og mom, Og dad. Og mom very happy.

Og buy router hook up Og 'puter to Og cave DSL. Og try set up router. Not work. Og spend WHOLE HOUR ON PHONE with man try get router work. Not work.

Og then spend half hour MORE try get Og mom 'puter work again. Router man make Og take off program for DSL. Og have big big trouble get program work again. Og get 'firmware upgrade' from router web page but Og not gonna try that again just now; Og not wanna screw up Mom 'puter now Og get 'puter working. Og try tomorrow maybe. Maybe day after. Og not know.

Og supposed be at karate but Og make vow not go karate until DSL work again. DSL work again but karate already start. beh. Og see if Og get to karate tonight, maybe too late get to class. Oh well. Og take extra time play Black & White, teach new horse not eat pig, not eat people. Og also get copy of Fire Bird and Floor Skin (Og pretty sure Og hear it call 'Phoenix and Carpet' but Og not know those words) that Og ask man at Borders get for Og last week. Maybe even write something about frozen North law man and big dog. Been too long.

Og back later.

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[lwood.livejournal.com]

What flavor of wee router box? I regularly buy Linksys; they've never given me a moment of trouble.

DSL regularly uses PPPoE, so what I do is hook up my trusty OS X iBook (OS X and XP both have PPPoE clients as part of the OS already, so no need to use nassssty installer program), do the registration song-and-dance -- before putting the router on the network. Then, I hook up the router, explain Life, the Universe, and Everything to it: PPPoE. Always on. This is the username and password. Your 802.11b SSID is... y'know, the usual.

Then configure the other children for DHCP and throw 'em on.

But Linksys, man. All about the Linksys. The same model is sweet for cable modem too; we have that in the latest apartment. No PPPoE, just tell it to clone the MAC (Ethernet) address of the Trusty iBook and Comcast is none the wiser.

-- Lorrie

[camwyn]

Og buy store brand router from CompUSA. Help man say 'Gigaspeed tech support' when Og call him for help. Gigaspeed router have four LAN port, one WAN port. Og not have money for Linksys router when Og buy router yesterday.

Og think if firmware upgrade (which Og download yesterday) not work tonight, Og take router back to CompUSA, ask exchange for Linksys router. Og suck it up if Og have to.

[mountainspeak.livejournal.com]

My old router is a Lynksys, although I can't seem to get the damn thing to work these days. Could ship to to you, if you want to try it.