I've had a mini saga regarding getting a new laptop but this evening while trying to set up a wireless network I have reached the point of screaming heebies. I am about to indulge myself and hopefully no one is listening.
If I'd known the pain in the rear that setting up a simple two pc wireless network would be I'd have got a red hot poker and ritually disembowelled myself just to save time. Having found a pretty good bargain on a super speedy wireless router and card set I rushed to set up. I have come to the conclusion that the totally git laden pus balls at Belkin are liars of the first order. The picture on their box shows a very happy lady clearly enjoying her network connection to the internet - but I know the truth; had she indeed managed to walk on water and get the blasted box to work she would have super frazzled hair, sweat rings the size of china and the mad staring look you get when you've had too many coco pops. The lies don't stop there though, on the cunningly written multilingual instructions inside are tantalising crapoids like 'will automatically configure itself with your internet software.' What? Will it? I'd have more faith in its supposed artificial intelligence if it said it would also 'sort your cd collection by chart position and date using telekinises'.
I managed after two hours of spitoon filling gibbering rage to get my PC and laptop to recognise that they at least shared some sort of computer ancestry. It was at this point , for no particular reason that I can fathom except that the gods hate me, that the stupid box of crud disconnected my internet connection, helpfully reset the ip address and then in a diabolical collaboration with Zonealarm wouldn't let me change the fr*ggin settings back. I rebooted my PC for the fiftieth time.
I resurrected my internet connection with some arcane wierdness deep in the bowels of the hell called TCP/IP settings and was so surprised I looked around for the pope to declare a miracle and beatify me on the spot. Of course getting the internet back enraged the router which got in a huff and refused to connect the laptop anymore. It is a good job my room is devoid of hammers. Reconnecting the laptop of course stopped the internet working but forearmed with the power I was able to short cut the spawn of satan's plans and get the internet back straight away. I have decided that it is impossible for anyone not blessed with Einstianian intuition and utter genius to have much more success or get further than getting the plastic wrapper off this piece of gordian knot.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
GRRRR - Wasting five hours with a network - Rant - Rant-
by Qcmbr 7 Replies latest jw friends
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Qcmbr
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ballistic
Now, turn on encyption. It's off by default and 80% of people leave it off. Anyone can use your internet bandwidth, worse still use your connection for hacking, worse still use a packet sniffer to see what you are up to.
Best thing I ever did was install my cat5.
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IP_SEC
Zonealarm
Might be part of the whole problem.
Do you want help, or is this just a rant?
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Sad emo
Someone near my house has belkin wireless, for which I'm very grateful!
emo - who is using crappy aol wired connection tonight and has only been disconnected 8 times in the last 2 hours - not bad.
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Qcmbr
Just a rant thanks! I've turned off the router and given up. Tomorrow I'm going to try and trick my network expert friend over to my house with a promise of cookies, I won't let him leave until he sets everything up properly.
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I would turn on encryption as well but that's just another world of hurt that'll I'll face tomorrow - after a good nights sleep and some aspirin. -
Qcmbr
knickers.
Tomorrow night would not be a good night to spend on the network according to Mrs Qcmbr -
ballistic
Something to do with it being Steak and BJ day???
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Undecided
I know what you are going through. It took me several days to get mine working. I have a desktop in two bed rooms with wireless internet sharing. I'm not an IT and know nothing about networking, but I did finally get it working. Don't ask me how though.
Ken P.