Comments | chibirisuchan: network geek girl goes grarrrgh

chibirisuchan

network geek girl goes grarrrgh

Feb 02, 2008 15:47

So my renter has wanted wireless networking forever. I knew it was going to be tricky to work into my network configuration because I can't do JUST wireless at my house because of work requirements ( Read more... )

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lilymoon1 February 3 2008, 00:29:07 UTC

That's awful. When we went wireless I needed to be able to connect 2 PCs,3 laptops and 2 printers to the network. It was clearly beyond my skill so I hired one of the "Geek Squad". He couldn't make it work so that I could print from a laptop to the printer without actually having a cable jacked in. In theory, it should have worked.

The hell of it is the ridiculous amount I had to pay this guy to fail at part of the job.

Ah well, I just carry a laptop to the nearest printer and plug in.

:eyeroll of irritation:

Snaps up for being able to do it yourself!

chibirisuchan February 3 2008, 04:46:23 UTC

Yeah, I've discovered that ten years of writing networking documentation has taught me more than the average Geek Squad member knows. When I balance that against the amount they charge per hour, I'm pretty much a DIY kind of girl.

...who am I kidding. I'm ALWAYS a DIY kind of girl. Degree in technical theater, aka degree in "knowing what to do with both a bandsaw and a serger". Built a greenscreen studio in my garage. Rewired my old apartment's electric stove on account of how it couldn't get any more broken than it had been, since the stove was older than I was. Built scaffolding in my attic to allow for storage over blown-in insulation. Wired my neighbor's restaurant's network for them. Built every desktop I've ever owned. It would be like handing my geek license over if I hired someone to install a network for me. Still, the stupid thing was never meant to be an access point, and I don't know why I believed him when he said they were all dual-mode anymore...

lilymoon1 February 3 2008, 09:30:42 UTC

Yeah. We built our PCs, too. Or, more accurately, I built them. Hubby got together all the components he wanted and gave them all to me. Here, make it work. The games he plays seem to require a computer that NASA can borrow if need be.

I can cope well enough, but my geekiness is in other areas. A good memory combined with the fact I read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica in a summer long fit of insomnia means I can seriously kick ass at Trivial Pursuit. lol

Something to try... anonymous February 9 2008, 22:40:41 UTC

What I've found that works for many of these wireless routers is to not use the 'Internet' port and just use one of the built-in switch connections. Theoretically, the router won't try to route anything on the built-in switch, but it does tend to REPEAT everything that goes through it across the wireless - including DHCP requests.

Let us know if that works for you...

..Chordonblue