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SlowModem:
--- Quote from: mackbig on March 24, 2009, 04:05:51 PM ---Thanks, I will just chalk it up to an anomoly....
I know someone that setup a timer on both the router and cable modem at my inlaws house. The idea was to "clear" the connection each night. But they used a cheap manual dial timer and a one hour off block.... over time and after a few black outs, the "off" period moved into mid morning. My wife called my a said the internet never worked from 9 to 10am, it was happening for weeks. Repeated calls to ISP said nothing was wrong. I went downstairs that night and found the culprit. The installer (their son) claimed this was a best practice to keep a clean internet connection...
Anyway, was not going to do that, at least I would have used a digital timer with a one minute on/off if I was....
I will just leave it alone, and hope it goes another 15 months, or longer till next issue.
Andrew
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What a great story! Thanks for sharing it. =D>
That's something I could picture myself doing. :oops:
SlowModem:
Home Wireless Networks for Dummies (me)
This is kind of off-topic, but I'd really like to know the answer. I have a Netgear wireless router I got at Staples. It worked well when we had a cable modem. After we moved and got stuck with dialup, the router wouldn't work anymore.
Why does it have to be hooked up to a cable modem to provide a wireless network in the house? It would be nice to just have the laptops and printer connected wirelessly. I don't understand why it has to be connected to the internet.
W Thomas:
Router/modem resets are one thing that gets done around here almost hourly! Continual PM !!Our DSL connection is so bad if I got through a day without an outage of some duration I would mark that in red on the calendar!
The phone co must have adopted CID because I called them again tonight and was on hold for bout an hour and finally gave that up :) Don't think they wanted to talk to me :evil:
Our connection is a total drop out when temps are above 50 degrees! I have still yet to find a valid reason for DSL and temperature related failures being akin except in the case of a bad splice or loose binding post somewhere that is expanding/contracting with the swings in temperature.
ncpilot:
--- Quote from: Slow Modem on March 24, 2009, 09:20:13 PM ---Home Wireless Networks for Dummies (me)
This is kind of off-topic, but I'd really like to know the answer. I have a Netgear wireless router I got at Staples. It worked well when we had a cable modem. After we moved and got stuck with dialup, the router wouldn't work anymore.
Why does it have to be hooked up to a cable modem to provide a wireless network in the house? It would be nice to just have the laptops and printer connected wirelessly. I don't understand why it has to be connected to the internet.
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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_access_point under "ad-hoc network"
I think you'll have to reconfigure your router for ad-hoc networking rather than a true access point.
And unless your printer is network enabled (i.e., you plug the printer into the router), it'll have to be attached to a running computer in order to have it available to other computers in your house. (and set to "share"?)
Garth Bock:
--- Quote from: Slow Modem on March 24, 2009, 09:20:13 PM ---Home Wireless Networks for Dummies (me)
This is kind of off-topic, but I'd really like to know the answer. I have a Netgear wireless router I got at Staples. It worked well when we had a cable modem. After we moved and got stuck with dialup, the router wouldn't work anymore.
Why does it have to be hooked up to a cable modem to provide a wireless network in the house? It would be nice to just have the laptops and printer connected wirelessly. I don't understand why it has to be connected to the internet.
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You don't need for the Netgear to be connected to the internet to make your laptops communicate with each other or the printer. You can get wireless print servers or buy a wireless printer (HP, Brother, Epson, Kodak) so that you can have just the Netgear as a stand alone router that will help connect your laptop to the printer or other computers in the house. The Netgear does not have to be connected to the internet to allow local sharing of data.
Dial up and Broadband are two different technologies. You can get a dial up wireless router but the one you have will not work on dial-up. Check this out.... http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/516571
You can not plug your dial up modem into the Netgear you have and share its connection.
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