Posted on 06/01/2008 8:33:05 PM PDT by TheMom
This afternoon my husband set up a computer for the kids. Once everything was set up, he checked to make sure all computers were connected to the net via the router. All looked great!
Then one of the kids downloaded some type of crap that has caused our internet connection to be kaput. I contacted our internet provider – after testing they determined that the problem was not within the cable box. (Each computer can connect to the internet if hooked up directly to the cable box). They gave me the customer service number to the router company ~ the gal said they could check to see if it was a router problem. The customer service lady for Linksys said that since our router is about eight years old it was out of warranty, but for a mere $32.95 they could have a tech check out the problem. (After a few colorful words from my husband) We went out and purchased a new router for $25.00.
The problem still exist. (I have not yet recontacted the router company.)
Each individual system can connect to the internet via the cable box. When all systems are connected to the router, there is no internet connection.
We have tried the basic turn it off, turn it on again ~ with no luck.
Does anyone have a clue how to fix this problem?
Can’t blame the X-Box ~ as the oldest child has been using that for the past three months.
They have great marketing ploy for service garages where they give big discounts off exorbitant pricing and still get huge markups, but they do have great warranty programs that cost them a buck or two for sure.
My tools come from everywhere.....lol.
The switch is the newest additon . . . the oldest child purchased it because it was the cheapest item available. BUT - the regulator router still does not work.
Tomorrow I will exchange the switch for a router - hopefully that will solve out problem.
I cannot be accountable for typo's after 9:00 pm.
The time to hack the Mac was 2 minutes... because that's how long it took to get the referees to navigate the computer to the pre-prepared website.
Charles Miler, the winner of the MacBook Air and $10,000 told interviewers that he, along with his team of two ex-NSA computer security experts, worked three weeks in advance of the CanSec West conference where the contest was held, to find the security hole in Mac OSX.
Vista was hacked six hours later but the team who did it had not done any advance preparation.
The LINUX laptop was not compromised, even on the third day of the contest.
That is exactly what the new thingie looks like . . .
Tomorrow I plan on exchanging the new swich thingie for a router thingie.
(r u mpresed i have lrned the lingo)
LOL - - thanks for the laugh.
I just went through some more issue, when I switched to wireless N. The router is supposed to run all three possible network security protocols simultaneously, but it does not like it much. What it does, is use a lower range antenna which affects the newer "N" speed improvements.
This caused me to upgrade my modems, and put some on ethernet. I have nine on the network in a single family home......LOL....
The Apple culture is one that locks the user into a contract....unwritten........that forces said user to get most if not all of the services that Apple offers in a perpetual way.
The said users are not only comfortable with this arrangement, they defend it like junkies.
The whole thing is very worrisome to me. I have witnessed all sort of business models in all kinds of products, and only twice have I see this sort of emotion conveyed by users of a service or product in defense of the company.
Actually, this isn't something "new" in the computer industry. If anything "The Apple Model" is a step back in history. It's the sort of model used by just about every computer manufacturer... In the midrange and mainframe world. And guess what? It worked. You rarely if ever heard anyone complain about the fact that when you had a problem with your IBM System 34, you called IBM. And it didn't matter if it was a hardware or an OS problem. Because there were no incompatibilities. Because you had a single vendor.
This whole PC vs MAC thing is pretty annoying. You've got MAC users who used to use PCs that were never interested in being a "computer user" because they simply wanted to do their jobs or what they liked, using the computer as a tool. And when they couldn't do that on a PC, but could on a MAC for what ever reasons, they become evangelists.
On the other hand, you've got people who love playing with and hacking PCs who feel that it's important to their self esteem to decry those other people, simply because they didn't want to scour the Internet to find that one driver that would eventually fix the problem they're having. And when they do solve the problem, they announce to the world how wonderful they are.
Geez, I'm SO SICK OF IT!!!
Mark
And I thought we were bad!
(I will sheepishly admit that I had forgotten we have an X-Box on ours, also.)
From what I gathered from the reviews I read, the EARLY BEFSR41’s were OK, like the version 1’s or 1.2’s. (This is already more than I care to know about a product like this, just so you know) Firmware was “upgraded” to v 2—then v 4, and MANY folks who replaced their old, 5-6+ yr old ones that died went bananas and couldn’t make it work. The problems reported tended to occur on really big downloads or X-box applications where (I guess) big graphics files were being hosed back and forth. The router would just drop off line...OR, in some DSL applications it would time out. As I said, I am not any kind of power user, but rebooting your whole rig is a PITA. And when is it going to happen? When you need it, right?
I didn’t buy the Linksys based on a review or brand layoalty or disloyalty-—it was for sale el cheapo at a church sale, new in the box. I had it working pretty quickly after unboxing it but could NEVER get it to work after the very first time I simply plugged my laptop into it (having changed NOTHING, and at that point having 3 wired PCs hanging on the thing) not even one computer (only) straight thru.....so then I perused the reviews and found dozens and dozens of crazed and dissatified users. Next time I was at Fry’s, a Netgear WGR614 4-port + wireless router (yes, router) was on sale for $20 and I couldn’t not buy it after spending five+ hours trying to make the other one work. End of story!
I was using Linksys successfully until I did a firmware update about a month ago. The firmware killed the router. I'm fortunate that even though the router was 2 years old they issued a RMA. I'm using a crappy little Trendnet router now that has a wireless range of about 10 feet.
I should have left good-enough alone and not install the new firmware.
I'll bet they disabled the Vista protected mode as well. They did not mention it in the article, but the fact is, the machine will not execute anything without permissions granted by the user. They would have had to enable remote operation to do that, so when you look at it from a fair perspective. All the tests were likely rigged.
As for linux, It would totally depend on how many and which extra apps you were running. Without those, Linux would be impenetrable. It is the extra bells and whistles that are exploited. Linux basically has none. The more complex Mac OS's become, the vulnerable they will be.
Customers eventually will cause all these extras to be installed, and there ya go......
What the hell did you just say????
Eaker - help!! These folks are speaking Geek & I don’t understand.
Give the kid a book.
Same thing happened to the I-Pods that were hacked a while back. The firmware update was designed by Apple to kill the phone....Neat trick....
I can't imagine why buyers of Apple I-phones took it in stride and bought another....
Weird....
Ah geez - I should have known to talk to you first about this issue.
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