This was the scene earlier.......
29-04-2004, 01:04
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
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being discussed at the mo and the phrase hell freezing over has been stated, along with loss of limbs and no more chicken kebabs  |
Oh dear, that does not sound very good. Could I make things better by sitting idly witnessing tomorrow's events unfold considering I know f**k-all about Wireless? 
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29-04-2004, 01:12
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
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Oh dear, that does not sound very good. Could I make things better by sitting idly witnessing tomorrow's events unfold considering I know f**k-all about Wireless? |
Course you can sweetie, we need all the encouragement we can get. If you can imagine two of the thickest thickies then thats us  We need knights in shining armour 
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29-04-2004, 01:19
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Right. I'll be stripping the rusty lawnmower in my shed first thing in the morning. 
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29-04-2004, 12:35
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
*polishes his lance*
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29-04-2004, 13:36
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
My recent experience - wireless setup for a friend - was a little mixed.
1. I set the router up OFFLINE - and wirelessly! - selected dynamic addressing mode, cloned the addres (spot the mistake), and set about implementing WEP security, and locking the router to only associate with the specified WiFi adapter mac addresses.
Connected up, the router wouldn't pick up an addrerss, DCHP failed - after some fiddling, spotted the mistake, and then SET the mac address of the NTL Ethernet adapter, instead of CLONING the adress of the WiFi.
After that, turned off the SSID broadcast, and it worked, for a while, then failed.
Found a suggestion that you use the adapter utility, and turn off Windows configuration of the wireless network - so updated the adapter drivers and urtility - **UNCERTIFIED DRIVERS** - and then spent the rest of the day trying to fix a hard crashed WinXP! - A "repair install" finally did it - should have gone there first.
DELETED ALL TRACE OF THOSE DAMN DRIVERS!
Installed supplied drivers/utility, and set it up, working fine (with SSID broadcast disabled) until WindowsUpdate (reloading lost updates from repair) - updated the Wifi (Prism) driver and broke the utility.
Switched back to Windows configuration for it, and this time, left SSID broadcast ON - the router is mac address secured anyway, and I'm getting to distrust the combination with SSID broadcast disabled, after readin several similar examples where it wouldn't work properly without broadacst (unless WEP was disabled - which is far less secure).
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29-04-2004, 13:37
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
*Mounts his trusty steed ( ) and goes off up North..
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29-04-2004, 14:50
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
Well, guess what......................
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29-04-2004, 14:53
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
What ????
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29-04-2004, 14:53
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
I hate supporting and installing broadband, but mainly coz im lazy, and it all seems like far to much effort... also i share a house with cable monkey, so always get him to run my cat5  's rule!
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29-04-2004, 14:54
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
We are now in business, officially, as consultants for wireless networking.
No real problems, we both have big grins, like this -------> me bb31
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29-04-2004, 14:57
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
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We are now in business, officially, as consultants for wireless networking.
No real problems, we both have big grins, like this -------> me bb31 |
yay - nice one Debs, who is getting the kebabs in? 
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29-04-2004, 15:06
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29-04-2004, 15:07
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
bb31 can cos I got them in last night 
Thanks Stuartbe for your kind offer and all the other knights, we are quite amazed really how smoothly it went 
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29-04-2004, 15:12
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Well bb31 took the plunge with Ebuyer and they are delivering on Thursday. Wish us luck cos we are both but Stuartbe I know where you are (again)
Thanks to everyone for the good advice think we may have some  the night before to get in the spirit of things 
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i think the ebuyer advice is worth a view of the tongue out pic!!
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29-04-2004, 15:54
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Re: This was the scene earlier.......
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We are now in business, officially, as consultants for wireless networking.
No real problems, we both have big grins, like this -------> me bb31 |
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