DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Sigh). Alright. Maybe I should explain what's going on here.
I am back in DC after my much needed vacation. Out of Middle America, into the fire.
My boss just got a bunch of wireless networking stuff for Christmas. (So he can work at home and have dinner with his family every night.) However, he knows nothing about computers. Ergo, I have to come over and set it all up.
And I did. Two weeks ago. And it worked.
Except for one little laptop.
And that, how they say, is when the troubles started.
1. I try everything possible to get the laptop (running a Linksys 802.11G wireless card) to work with the wireless router (also made by Linksys). In addition, the much-hyped WPA encryption standard has been, well...non-existant. (Some security, huh.)
2. So I call Linksys technical support, and after trying everything possible to get the wireless card to work, we turn to the router. Except I can't log into the router. (Even though I'm the one who programmed the damn thing the first time around.) So, we decide to reset the router. Router is reset. Now it can't access the Internet, because it required special settings to work with a DSL modem. So I try to set the router back up, and guess what? The DSL modem doesn't work! It won't recognize its password! Which means, no Internet!
3. So now, I get on with the Verizon people, and surprise, they tell me I have to set up the DSL modem into "bridge" mode. Which is news to me. So I follow the settings, and still no Internet, but the guy says "it should work with the router now."
4. So I call up Linksys again. That was 90 minutes ago. Apparently their new products are so popular (read: so shitty) that there's a waiting line over an hour long. And I still don't have any Internet access over that damn DSL line.
So how am I blogging this, you ask?
Turns out that the aforementioned laptop does get wireless Internet.
It's just logging into another wireless network somewhere else in the neighborhood.
Ah, the wonders of technology.
Fucking asshats.
Posted by Thief at December 30, 2003 10:25 PM