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?
More Geek talk . . . it is times like this that I wish I was bilingual.
Help me!!!! Mark is still speaking Geek . . . I don’t understand. ;-)
One of the stray’s caused the problem . . . not sure I trust them with one of my books!
I have a brother and a sister who speak that. I don't speak a word of it. Hey...let me ping my brother...I don't know how often he comes on here, though, but he's pretty computer-geekish.
You're up late. :) I've gotta get my butt to bed now. I have to do annoying passport renewal crud in the morning. W'hoo.
Good luck! ("The strays..." LOL!)
Good grief....since when are YOU up so late??
It’s kinda scary . . . this is the second night I have noticed he was up late.
Does that mean the world is coming to an end due to global warming?
More FUD. The 1.1 update for the iPhone bricked the jailbroken iPhones because they were jailbroken by using a security vulnerability. Apple merely fixed the vulnerability. In fact, Apple redesigned the OSX architecture on the iPhone, moving the users to a "standard user" instead of administrator level access. That was a security move, not a move to deliberately "brick" the iPhone's of people who had hacked them.
Apple even explicitly WARNED updaters that if they had hacked the phone and/or installed unauthorized software, they were at risk of the update failing and their iPhones failing to work.
Apple was not responsible for warranty repair on iPhone's that had been used in violation of the EULA... although almost all of the "bricked" iPhones were working within two weeks as the crackers found another method to access them. Now, in a couple of weeks or so, third party software will be available with a legitimate method for installation.
The phone would not need hacking if it could be used on other networks. Apple created the problem, people wanted to stick it to them, and they got their phones bricked for the trouble.
That's OK with me, but what I was amazed by is the fact that many of the bricked people had enough bricks in their head to buy another one.
After the new one is displayed at the show coming up, they will all rush out and get that one too.(Gotta have the new G-phone!)
I think it's insanity, but what do I know. I've had the same Motorola for 5 years or so.
There’s nothing proprietary about the Mac ecosystem, but you’re free to think what you want.
Fine by me if someone enjoys the iPhone enough to pay good money, or put up with non-trivial hacking hastles. I can understand that; the iPhone interface is way cool. And it is fine by me if Apple and/or AT&T wants to try to maximize their income with some proprietary hurdles. I can choose whether or not to do business with them.
Meanwhile I'm happy with the T-Mobile little bar of soap Nokia phone I have that costs me about $10/month.
The ONLY network other than AT&T that the iPhone could possibly work with is T-Mobile. The iPhone's technology is incompatible with all of the other's technology. Apple did not create the "problem;" Apple created the iPhone. Those who hacked their iPhones against the warnings that if they did so they were on their own created the problem. They violated their contract.
If you decide to post articles from sources that are listed on FR's "Do Not Post List" because you want to "stick it" to Jim Robinson because you don't like the terms of use agreement on FreeRepublic, has Jim created the problem when you get banned, or did you?
Okay.
Good luck TheMom! I have no expertise BUT am bookmarking this thread as it seems to have a lot of good information for “whenever”.
I am the only one on my computer/system & it messes up plenty with just me. I can hardly imagine how you & networks survive!
Sounds like you have a lot of great Techie help here at this thread to hopefully get you through.
I understand, mine worked before it didn’t. ;)
Seriously. They said it would do that sometimes with the potential for both to stop working. (Their words,not mine)
At work, we had a modem failure, again RR, multiple routers, etc. After finally replacing the modem, the tech could not get us back online. After he left, I unplugged everything and rebooted back in sequence. Patience between starting devices, a couple of minutes anyway, some boot far faster than others.
Please ignore if you already have an answer, didn’t have time to read through the thread.
I have a WRT54G and a Linksys cable modem as well as PCI adatpers in desktops and a WET bridge on a W2k laptop and I've had absolutely no problems with any of it.
Now I did have a PC card wireliss and that thing had serious driver or hardware problems. Replaced it with a $15 Chinese AirLink 101 and never had another glitch.
That's the problem in a nutshell. Apple fanatics are so deep into the scheme that they cannot see the forest for the trees....
To be frank, it's quite comical to those of us who do and the irony is dripping all over the place every time a Apple participant attacks Microsoft for running a proprietary consumer trap.
Just dripping irony every day.......
But I love irony.
We Mac OSX users find it amazing that we, who are experienced on TWO ecosystems instead of just Microsoft's, are considered the people who "cannot see the forest for the trees," and can be lectured by people who have NEVER run a modern OSX Mac and have no experience on which to base an opinion. The fact is, Cold, you do not have the experience necessary to hold an opinion that is valid on this subject. Your opinion is based on myth and hearsay from others as ignorant as you.
Your ignorance about Mac and Apple is dripping from every post you have made about those subjects in this thread... and in the Apple Mac threads where you have posted before. I have corrected your lack of facts every time you posted on the subject. You like to repeat things you have merely heard about to people who have far more experience than you on both platforms and expect us to bow to your superior "knowledge" and claims of irony. Your lecturing us on our shortcomings and our lack of ability to "see the forrest" is quite arrogant, taking the position that we are "rubes" who need to have their eyes opened. You are the one who is blind, having only looked for the forrest through Windows.
That is truly ironic.
OH sorry, I thought you bought a new one that would still be in warranty.
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