Today’s technical challenge.....
......(Wednesday, October 12, 2011), is to put a security-code on our new router.
So our neighbor’s daughter, from Ohio, can’t wirelessly steal the Internet from our router when she visits our neighbor across the street with her laptop.
We did this with our previous wireless router after our neighbor regaled us with tales of his daughter, who he doesn’t like, stealing our Internet.
I did it myself by phone. Somebody on the west coast actually did it.
But our old router was getting flaky. It’s ancient, but we didn’t replace it because it was still working.
Our Internet is via cable, RoadRunner.
It uses a cable-modem.
The modem feeds Internet to our router, after which it’s hard-wired to this computer.
“Easy Installation Instructions,” stuff in the router-box blared.
“Just fire up http://????.??.?.??, and you’ll get this window.”
We didn’t, of course.
Back to the old waazoo: “Try this and see what happens.”
And the instruction-manual was online, of course.
Um, HELLOOOOO; ya need Internet to just get there, which means hard-wire directly from the modem to this here computer.
In other words, bypass your router, and then print, so you can install your router.
My wife is supposed to print an 80-page instruction-manual? And it’s landscape, of course; probably a pdf scan.
What a waste of paper!
Anyone ever consider analyzing an actual installation manual while sitting on the toilet?
Try doing that with an open laptop, which needs wireless Internet while sitting on the toilet.
Makes a lotta sense! I don’t have wireless Internet until I install it, plus my laptop can fall off my knees and disintegrate on the floor.
Okay, so do the set-up web-site with my Smartphone, in which case the display is so tiny I hafta expand and scroll.
Also, don’t drop the Smartphone in the toilet.
Does anyone ever consider these things, that humans are driving the technology?
Yep, humans are too big, and messy, and their input devices are also too big.
We need to dump the humans so technology can rule!
So now we’re back to Square-One; no Internet at all from our new router.
Sounds like another phonecall to the west coast!
• “RoadRunner” is our local Internet-Service-Provider (ISP) via cable. It also provides cable TV.
So our neighbor’s daughter, from Ohio, can’t wirelessly steal the Internet from our router when she visits our neighbor across the street with her laptop.
We did this with our previous wireless router after our neighbor regaled us with tales of his daughter, who he doesn’t like, stealing our Internet.
I did it myself by phone. Somebody on the west coast actually did it.
But our old router was getting flaky. It’s ancient, but we didn’t replace it because it was still working.
Our Internet is via cable, RoadRunner.
It uses a cable-modem.
The modem feeds Internet to our router, after which it’s hard-wired to this computer.
“Easy Installation Instructions,” stuff in the router-box blared.
“Just fire up http://????.??.?.??, and you’ll get this window.”
We didn’t, of course.
Back to the old waazoo: “Try this and see what happens.”
And the instruction-manual was online, of course.
Um, HELLOOOOO; ya need Internet to just get there, which means hard-wire directly from the modem to this here computer.
In other words, bypass your router, and then print, so you can install your router.
My wife is supposed to print an 80-page instruction-manual? And it’s landscape, of course; probably a pdf scan.
What a waste of paper!
Anyone ever consider analyzing an actual installation manual while sitting on the toilet?
Try doing that with an open laptop, which needs wireless Internet while sitting on the toilet.
Makes a lotta sense! I don’t have wireless Internet until I install it, plus my laptop can fall off my knees and disintegrate on the floor.
Okay, so do the set-up web-site with my Smartphone, in which case the display is so tiny I hafta expand and scroll.
Also, don’t drop the Smartphone in the toilet.
Does anyone ever consider these things, that humans are driving the technology?
Yep, humans are too big, and messy, and their input devices are also too big.
We need to dump the humans so technology can rule!
So now we’re back to Square-One; no Internet at all from our new router.
Sounds like another phonecall to the west coast!
• “RoadRunner” is our local Internet-Service-Provider (ISP) via cable. It also provides cable TV.
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