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A Million Thanks Kye. X Posting
-giggle-
long story, but the issue is internet connectivity in the house. housemate needs to hog most of the bandwidth for his job (which is fine. no problem). cable company is claiming we need to rewire the house in order to get a clean enough signal to be able to use 2 computers and at least one tv. (right now we can use one tv (mine) and one computer (his) at the same time, after having sacrificed the proper number of root vegetables to the appropriate gods/goddesses and spinning in circles counterclockwise on one foot for 30 seconds under a quarter moon. whole other ritual for the full moon. no connectivity under no moon. ;-) so i'm not going to get a machine until we have a good signal (we just can't face getting the (rented) house rewired at the moment. housemate, a technogeek, is threatening to get a wireless transmitter thingie), so 'til then, i'm a workplace user (only when i'm not busy, boss, really). one of these days we'll join the 20th century and i'll get a mac, and maybe even a digital camera! :-) --j_a On Aug 19, 11:36*am, "Ray B" wrote: As an editorial comment: *shame on you for not having a PC and trying to do all of this on a corporate Blackberry. (insert grin here). *You can get a whole system for about the cost of a Blackberry! |
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A Million Thanks Kye. X Posting
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) in jankey wrote:
-giggle- long story, but the issue is internet connectivity in the house. housemate needs to hog most of the bandwidth for his job (which is fine. no problem). cable company is claiming we need to rewire the house in order to get a clean enough signal to be able to use 2 computers and at least one tv. (right now we can use one tv (mine) and one computer (his) at the same time, after having sacrificed the proper number of root vegetables to the appropriate gods/goddesses and spinning in circles counterclockwise on one foot for 30 seconds under a quarter moon. whole other ritual for the full moon. no connectivity under no moon. ;-) Sounds like a load of hooey to me. If you can get one cable modem working, you can stick a consumer grade wireless router on it and connect every computer in the neighborhood to it. The reason I suggest a wireless router is that Best Buy sells them for slightly less than a router without wireless. It doesn't make any sense as the wireless routers have everything the wired routers have plus a radio transciever. If the wiring and plumbing and neighbor's microwave oven kill off 802.11B/G(wireless)... Walmart sells 50foot ethernet cables for about $20. They're quite nice because you can still close the windows when you run the cable window to window to connect rooms :-). so i'm not going to get a machine until we have a good signal (we just can't face getting the (rented) house rewired at the moment. housemate, a technogeek, is threatening to get a wireless transmitter thingie), so 'til then, i'm a workplace user (only when i'm not busy, boss, really). I wouldn't rewire the entire house. I'd just disconnect the house wiring, run a length of coax from the cable interface box through the window to the room that the TV belongs in, and run an ethernet cable to each computer. I had to do it in 2006 when I started living in sin with the woman who is now my wife. My roomates did it in 1995 to steal cable from the neighbors... -- Chris Dukes |
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A Million Thanks Kye. X Posting
A very funny story, you should write in your spare time.
Cheers Wendy "jankey" wrote in message ... -giggle- long story, but the issue is internet connectivity in the house. housemate needs to hog most of the bandwidth for his job (which is fine. no problem). cable company is claiming we need to rewire the house in order to get a clean enough signal to be able to use 2 computers and at least one tv. (right now we can use one tv (mine) and one computer (his) at the same time, after having sacrificed the proper number of root vegetables to the appropriate gods/goddesses and spinning in circles counterclockwise on one foot for 30 seconds under a quarter moon. whole other ritual for the full moon. no connectivity under no moon. ;-) so i'm not going to get a machine until we have a good signal (we just can't face getting the (rented) house rewired at the moment. housemate, a technogeek, is threatening to get a wireless transmitter thingie), so 'til then, i'm a workplace user (only when i'm not busy, boss, really). one of these days we'll join the 20th century and i'll get a mac, and maybe even a digital camera! :-) --j_a |
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A Million Thanks Kye. X Posting
router, yes! that's it. he wants to get one of those one of these
days. our computer tech neighbor has one but he password protected his network. wendy, i used to write back in my younger days; but now i have these silly orchids and horses to ride on the weekends and a nearly three hour a day commute (train wrecks will do that) and all that good stuff, so less time than usual. but thx. still waiting to win the lottery so i can skip the job part. --j_a On Aug 19, 3:32*pm, wrote: Sounds like a load of hooey to me. If you can get one cable modem working, you can stick a consumer grade wireless router on it and connect every computer in the neighborhood to it. |
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Kye is the one who set up alt.binaries.pictures.orchids so we all could show our pictures. Before that, we either had to column to a web website or use the absolute accumulation for accepted agronomical pictures. Then, if about anybody absent the bifold groups if not all news groups, Kye set up the server just for us.
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