Thanks to yesterday’s shopping excursion with Evil Tech Women, I could now set up my own Wireless LAN. I worked some today but after lunch, I decided to set things up rather than go back. (Hooray for Spring Break!)<\/p>\n
Isn’t it funny how a semi-trained network administrator can have troubles setting up her own network and yet her father and her friends have no trouble at all? <\/p>\n
So, what happened? Well, the problem happened with instruction 1.B.iii. No WAN light lit up. Hmmm… Well, I went through steps 1.B.i and 1.B.ii again (as step 1.B.iii said to should things not work) but still no go. I went on ahead with steps 1.C, 1.D, and 2-5, but still no deal. My computer saw the new router, but the router and the modem didn’t like each other. Grrrrrr.<\/p>\n
I called Road Runner and got a Time Warner desk jockey who was more interested in trying to sell me Digital Cable than in finding out the problem. He then connected me to a Road Runner national help desk dude who was a bit more helpful (or at least a bit more knowledgeable), and we decided to try a new Cat-5 cable. <\/p>\n
So it’s off to my next door neighbor’s to steal<\/strike> borrow a spare Cat-5 cable. But, alas, it wasn’t the cable. <\/p>\n
I took a bit of a break to clean out my car (it’s a gorgeous day and Leo’s got open windows to lay by) but when I was done, the modem and router still weren’t talking to each other. I decide to call D-Link. Before I even finished a round of Rummikub on the computer, I had a tech. I think he knew what my problem was before I even finished the description. Turns out my lovely modem doesn’t work on a 100Mbps network, just a 10Mbps one. *sigh* Within a minute of the phone call I could see Google and download my e-mail. YAY!<\/p>\n
I haven’t tried the wireless bit yet – though that part of the router was on almost immediately. If all goes well, you’ll see another update today from the laptop. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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