Borrowed RouterAuthor: jawapro
Date: Thu 01/05/2008 09:31 PM
I'm Back!Well - turns out that I cant get my missing posts back - so I have to start again.
If you have been following my recent posts - you'll know I was having trouble with my internet lately. Well - it got worse.
On Thursday last week, it stopped all together. I managed to figure out that Thursday was the day my old house's connection was turned off - so it was probably an account thing rather than my modem playing up.
I eventually managed to get someone to give me the Internode number (Thanks Turk!) as I didnt have access to the net to find the number! I rang them on Anzac day and they were suprisingly helpfull.
It was an account problem - as I'd though. They fixed it, and we were away.
Dad, Mum, and Emma were at my place for the weekend, and Mum and Emma had uni homework to do. I connected them to my internet via the wireless - and it worked fine.
After they left, I turned off the wireless connection on my router. I've had unprotected wireless for ages - but I figured I should finally protect myself.
Stupid me!
Of course - that night, my modem died completely. Well, the ethernet (LAN) part of it. So I couldnt get on the net - and I couldnt even get into the modem to turn the wireless back on (I could have used the laptop otherwise).
So I went shopping looking at modems. There are some local ones - but none I was overly taken by. I'd rather get a good one off the net - but that means waiting for it to turn up.
I mentioned it at work - and fourtuantly, work had a spare router I could borrow. It's only a dodgey single-port Telstra thing, but it's enough to get me going for now.
So I'm back on the net.
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