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Mar 15, 2008 - 01:37 PM |
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lately, my internet connection has been pretty spastic. it'll be on for a few hours, go down for twenty minutes, come back for an hour, go down for two hours, etc etc.
so last night, the little internet light on my modem finally goes out, so i decide to let it sit overnight and see if it comes back.
apparently, this was not good enough for my father, as he decided that at seven this morning that he could handle a tech support call (spoiler alert: he couldn't). long story short, he ends up waking me up with a phone to the face at SEVEN IN THE MORNING ON A SATURDAY.
so this woman from earthlink (who i'm not entirely unconvinced was a chihuahua, as all i heard for the entire duration of the call was YIPYIPYIPYIPYIP) drags me through the entire process of trying to fix things on my side, none of which worked, before she does things on her end and surprise working internets.
then she goes, "ok you have linksys router, let me transfer you to linksys specialist"
so they transfer me to linksys, and i figure what the hell why not even though i already know how to configure a router. so the guy picks up and i'm already running around the config page when FUCK PROBLEM.
apparently my router doesn't want to cooperate with PPPoE. so i wait for him to tell me to switch to PPPoE, then tell him, "it's not connecting."
so he tells me to switch to auto-detect. which i do, so he calls the case solved and hangs up.
for about twelve seconds, i have internet.
then i start getting kicked off... uh, constantly. i can't even browse around because by the time i finish typing in an address i'm booted. so oknp maybe, i'll go poke around in my router settings and see if i can't get my PPPoE settings to work.
so i go to the router config page
and instead of a password window, i get a happy page informing me YOU HAVE NO INTERNET
uh, wat
so i sit there staring at this for a moment, because DOES NOT COMPUTER. and in an epic moment of SHEER DISBELIEF, i have to try reloading the page.
it... won't connect.
uh okay. so i try release/renewing my ip. no worky. i disconnect and unplug the router, turn off the modem, turn it back on, wait for all the lights to go on, and replug/reconnect the router. negative. i try hard resetting the router, and for the fuck of it i restart my laptop. this time i get as far as the password window, then it gives me the same page. i close my browser and try again, and this time i don't even get to the password window. i disconnect my laptop and connect another computer to the router, and get the same story.
so i unplug the router and connect my laptop directly to the modem, hoping that the internet can help me. thus far the only conclusion i've come to is that linksys bricked its own damn router.
the best part is that this thing is maybe three months old. i think i'm going to take a nap and then see if i can dig up linksys' tech support number so i can try to get something out of them.
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