It's a setting somewhere...
...but there are lots of settings.
In June, we transferred the TV/internet service from my sister's name to my nephew's name. For reasons known only to AT&T, this required a technician to come out and install all new boxes. Did he take the old ones with him? No. We had to take them to UPS and ship them back to AT&T. There's an alternate universe some where where that makes sense. (They did pay for shipping.)
Last week, in the middle of the Newest Family Medical Crisis (TM) aka, oldest nephew's stroke, we received a bill from AT&T for $600, where they're claiming not to have received the equipment they required us to ship to them via UPS (rather than their service guy carting away.) Fortunately, Scott is completely anal and knew right where his proof was that they were shipped, and when. Still, to say we were not amused would be an understatement.
Timing is everything. That very night, a salesman from Comcast showed up, wanting to know why my sister and Scott had canceled service with them back in January, and if we could be tempted back. Normally, I'd say 'NO!' due to Comcast's terrible reputation, but it's hard to argue with a $600 bill for stupidity. And Comcast was offering us a really good package (very nearly every TV channel known to peoplekind, for $20 less a month than AT&T is charging.) So we signed up. I'm not naive here -- I know Comcast will probably screw us, too, as that's the modus operandi of all telecom companies. But that $600 really, seriously annoyed us.
Comcast guy came out today to install us, and it was only after I got home from babysitting a 3 year old girl and a 4 year old boy all day, plus coping with a beagle that has the IQ of a rock and a pony masquerading as German shepherd/malamute mix(another long story) that I realized that whereas AT&T handled wireless setup for us, Comcast would not.
So out came Scott's router, for which he no longer had any of the instructions, and after an hour or so, I got the internet working, including secured wireless. Go, me.
Only...I've got a setting wrong somewhere, because it's assigning the same IP address to both his desktop and my laptop, and won't let us both be online at the same time. Anyone have any idea where that setting would be?
Help...
In June, we transferred the TV/internet service from my sister's name to my nephew's name. For reasons known only to AT&T, this required a technician to come out and install all new boxes. Did he take the old ones with him? No. We had to take them to UPS and ship them back to AT&T. There's an alternate universe some where where that makes sense. (They did pay for shipping.)
Last week, in the middle of the Newest Family Medical Crisis (TM) aka, oldest nephew's stroke, we received a bill from AT&T for $600, where they're claiming not to have received the equipment they required us to ship to them via UPS (rather than their service guy carting away.) Fortunately, Scott is completely anal and knew right where his proof was that they were shipped, and when. Still, to say we were not amused would be an understatement.
Timing is everything. That very night, a salesman from Comcast showed up, wanting to know why my sister and Scott had canceled service with them back in January, and if we could be tempted back. Normally, I'd say 'NO!' due to Comcast's terrible reputation, but it's hard to argue with a $600 bill for stupidity. And Comcast was offering us a really good package (very nearly every TV channel known to peoplekind, for $20 less a month than AT&T is charging.) So we signed up. I'm not naive here -- I know Comcast will probably screw us, too, as that's the modus operandi of all telecom companies. But that $600 really, seriously annoyed us.
Comcast guy came out today to install us, and it was only after I got home from babysitting a 3 year old girl and a 4 year old boy all day, plus coping with a beagle that has the IQ of a rock and a pony masquerading as German shepherd/malamute mix(another long story) that I realized that whereas AT&T handled wireless setup for us, Comcast would not.
So out came Scott's router, for which he no longer had any of the instructions, and after an hour or so, I got the internet working, including secured wireless. Go, me.
Only...I've got a setting wrong somewhere, because it's assigning the same IP address to both his desktop and my laptop, and won't let us both be online at the same time. Anyone have any idea where that setting would be?
Help...