Not enough hours...
So my weekend came and went... 2 days were never shorter. I played like 2 hours of Paper Mario and did a ton of cleaning/throwing-away-shit of the old apartment, and the rest of the weekend disappeared.
I did, however, get to enjoy my newfound FiOS speeds when downloading copies of Ubuntu Linux at ~1950KB/s.
I flashed a Linksys Gateway/router we had lying around with DD-WRT, an open-source tweak of the firmware for various WRT54G-based routers. I wanted to let the router act as a Wireless Client Bridge so that two servers I had could be in another room from the FiOS router without running any cable through the wall. Pretty common stuff.
So setting up the DD-WRT part was pretty much cake, I was impressed with all of the features. Anyway, I wanted to make sure it was connecting to the FiOS router, so I was going to log in to the administration console for the FiOS router and look at what was connected to it. I quickly found out that the administration password was not the factory default, nor had the installation crew told me what it was. Ouch.
I had to look up how to reset the thing to factory settings (pretty easy to do), but once I did, the WAN connection went bye-bye. Just to double-check, my TV was still going strong, and the Verizon fiber converter read normal, so I knew there was no problem with the line. After like an hour of looking at all the settings in the router and turning up nothing, I called Verizon to see if there was some required setting that for some unknown reason is not a factory default. Turns out there is. Soon as I hit one particular checkbox, all diagnostics lights came on and the WAN came back.
If there's going to be a setting that you need for access, you'd think it would be set by default! Ass hats.
But the client bridge is great. I was plugged into the router with DD-WRT on it, but I was getting name resolution and DHCP stuff from the FiOS router, and I could ping my desktop computer which was wirelessly connected to the FiOS AP. After it was all said and done, the whole thing works like a charm.
AND THEN, I was doing a clean install of Ubuntu Feisty on a server I had that ran Dapper. First, I discovered the CD-ROM drive broke because the installation CD that could be read and verified in another system wouldn't checksum. So I had to swap a drive from another system (lame). THEN, the hard drive wouldn't partition right. I had to do it like 3 times (more lame!). I finally got everything installed like at 11pm last night.
I sure hope next weekend doesn't do the same thing. *flail*
I did, however, get to enjoy my newfound FiOS speeds when downloading copies of Ubuntu Linux at ~1950KB/s.
I flashed a Linksys Gateway/router we had lying around with DD-WRT, an open-source tweak of the firmware for various WRT54G-based routers. I wanted to let the router act as a Wireless Client Bridge so that two servers I had could be in another room from the FiOS router without running any cable through the wall. Pretty common stuff.
So setting up the DD-WRT part was pretty much cake, I was impressed with all of the features. Anyway, I wanted to make sure it was connecting to the FiOS router, so I was going to log in to the administration console for the FiOS router and look at what was connected to it. I quickly found out that the administration password was not the factory default, nor had the installation crew told me what it was. Ouch.
I had to look up how to reset the thing to factory settings (pretty easy to do), but once I did, the WAN connection went bye-bye. Just to double-check, my TV was still going strong, and the Verizon fiber converter read normal, so I knew there was no problem with the line. After like an hour of looking at all the settings in the router and turning up nothing, I called Verizon to see if there was some required setting that for some unknown reason is not a factory default. Turns out there is. Soon as I hit one particular checkbox, all diagnostics lights came on and the WAN came back.
If there's going to be a setting that you need for access, you'd think it would be set by default! Ass hats.
But the client bridge is great. I was plugged into the router with DD-WRT on it, but I was getting name resolution and DHCP stuff from the FiOS router, and I could ping my desktop computer which was wirelessly connected to the FiOS AP. After it was all said and done, the whole thing works like a charm.
AND THEN, I was doing a clean install of Ubuntu Feisty on a server I had that ran Dapper. First, I discovered the CD-ROM drive broke because the installation CD that could be read and verified in another system wouldn't checksum. So I had to swap a drive from another system (lame). THEN, the hard drive wouldn't partition right. I had to do it like 3 times (more lame!). I finally got everything installed like at 11pm last night.
I sure hope next weekend doesn't do the same thing. *flail*