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« on: Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 20:36:29 PM »
Not sure where to put this topic, but I suppose it's appropriate here.
The fiasco that is my house's coaxial cable system finally gave in on me... kinda. In a (probably) unrelated note, I tried to set up my router again after it would never work before. It failed the setup and couldn't find an Internet connection, so in the meantime I decided to clean this room; I removed some of my dad's work stuff, cleaned the floors and desks, etc. When I set the modem up again, it wouldn't get a signal. I called my ISP and asked them to reset it on their side and they couldn't even reach it. I took the modem to my bedroom and found that it worked fine down there on my cable. Then I tried it in my parent's room (where they never watch TV) and it worked again. At first frustrated, but then inspired, I split the cable for more length, ran it down my hallway, set the modem on the floor across the room from my computer, and ran a 20ft ethernet to the computer. I has internet but still no wireless. ISP is coming out tomorrow. I want them to re-route my cables.
I might take pics cuz it just looks awful with cable running across the entire ground floor of my house.