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If you don't see a QOD for a few days...
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:49 am
by fantine33
it's because I'm getting ready to unplug my modem and wireless router from my old computer and try to connect them to the new one and make it work.
I figure there's a 50/50 shot that I get it right. (It was a bitch getting everything to work when I first got the router, many tries, phone calls aplenty, a WAN change, an IP reset, etc.
Re: If you don't see a QOD for a few days...
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:55 am
by earendel
fantine33 wrote:it's because I'm getting ready to unplug my modem and wireless router from my old computer and try to connect them to the new one and make it work.
I figure there's a 50/50 shot that I get it right. (It was a bitch getting everything to work when I first got the router, many tries, phone calls aplenty, a WAN change, an IP reset, etc.
Good luck, fanny! Let's hope this time isn't as difficult as the last one.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:21 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
My advice is to take pictures of your present modem/router set up as a point of reference.
Good luck!
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:23 am
by peacock2121
Good Luck!
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:42 am
by earendel
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:My advice is to take pictures of your present modem/router set up as a point of reference.
Good luck!
That's an excellent suggestion with respect to the hardware - I'd add going in and making screen shots of the network configuration screens (for the IP address and such).
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:51 pm
by fantine33
Thanks for your suggestions. I really didn't have to worry about how it was hooked up, because all I needed to do was unplug the ethernet cable from the old one and plug it into the new one.
At first I decided that I'd just leave my old tower under the desk with the modem and router hooked up to it and go with wireless on the new one as well as my laptop. An hour or so later of it not connecting, connecting but not going anywhere, flipping between 'internet', 'limited' 'not available' and pages taking forever to load (and not yelling at the microwave 'hurry up' forever, I'm talking a minute or more) I just said WTF and yanked the plug!
Wow, Vista is sure superior in at least one way. No install discs, configuring, setting WANs and WEPS and what not like with XP. Plugged it in, two seconds later I have a connection and the pages are loading boom, boom, boom! YAY!!!1