Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The internet in my apartment is ran by satan

I swear, just when we have it fixed, it gives up the ghost. However, my roommate Janna is the one who must deal with it, and she is gone until tomorrow. So this is a quick one from work.

Although, I am worrying about the fact that now that I think on it, it may have been connected to the internet but my browser just wasn't playing nicely. That could be a whole other problem. Well, crap.

Also, I might have to work at Pier 1 tonight because someone may or may not be quitting by just not showing up. That sucks, especially because I know it will impinge upon my freedom later in the summer too. Unless we freaking hire some people already!

Also, still keep forgetting to purchase birthday gift for a roommate who's birthday was almost a week ago now. I know what I want. I am just not getting my ass in gear enough.

8 comments:

Heather K said...

So, it seems official that roommates computer is dead. Internet is dead because it is configured to go through her computer. I cannot fix it until I have passwords to get into our provider account/whatever. Don't worry roommate is back, so this shall all be remedied soon.

Heather K said...

We have a wireless router, it just needs to be told it can give out the internet to our house, even if Janna's computer is dead. Also, we totally secure our wireless! We have since we set it up.

Anonymous said...

I'm going w/Donald on this one; you don't have a wireless router, you have a PC acting as a base station if it knocks out the access for everybody else.

I'll second the recommendation above.

Just turn on WEP/WPA on the base station, and you shouldn't have problems with casual bandwidth thieves. Professional bandwidth thieves, though...

Heather K said...

I think that what happened was that when the internet was set up, the router didn't need to have wireless because there was one desktop computer that plugged into it. Once I arrived with my laptop, I just put the wep key in, and off I went. Until her computer died. The internet/router is still showing as working (all the right buttons are glowing all the right colors, my computer says it is picking up a signal from it). It isn't however letting me get onto the internet through our service provider's gateway, and I can't fix that without my roommates password and username. I have no idea what those are.

Also, I feel it was our service provider that reccomended the internet connection be set up that way. We are not super tech savvy, so as long as it secured our wireless (we did that), we were uncomplaining. Until now.

Probably she is at home fixing this now.

Heather K said...

tbert and Donald, how much does my un-tech-savvy-ness hurt your heads? Because I cannot imagine my explanations make a whole lot of sense since you actually have a good understanding (at the bare minimum) of what the real mechanics (or electronics ? ) of what I am talking about, and I have very little understanding. Rudimentary at best.

Heather K said...

I will try to get all of this for you. I also own another wireless router that has never left its box.

Heather K said...

We have a 2Wire Gateway 2700HG-B

Our service provider SBC/AT&T and it is DSL.

It used to be great until the AT&T took it over and it has been a mess in the last month or so--they have given us a few weeks free (because it hasn't worked for those weeks in part their fault).

Anonymous said...

Your tech-un-savviness doesn't hurt my head, because you don't fry electronics that it's my job to fix. Unlike my coworkers...