"Boater" wrote in message
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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:20:40 -0800 (PST), penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
On Dec 30, 5:42 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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You should've just called Harry he can fix anything.
Anybody should. Heck, I am far from a computer expert, but I
successfully
installed and setup a wireless home network system for my son at his
Beachouse. All you have to do is carefully follow the instructions.
Our system was dependent on Comcast. *That* was the problem.
Eisboch
I've got Comcast, and I set up my own wireless network without a
glitch.
Legitimizes the do-it-yourself notion......
I have a feeling the "cable modem" Eisboch was issued, and not the router,
or router side, was at fault here. There really isn't much to setting up a
router if you are not assigning IP addresses to the devices on your home
network.
I don't know much about these things but the one they replaced (that had
been working fine until the Comcast dude remotely did something to it) was
one unit. It was a modem/wireless router in one package.
The wireless router I installed myself at my kid's house was a separate unit
from the modem.
I simply connected it to the Comcast provided modem and followed the
directions on the disk that came with the router. It was duck soup. Set up
a secure network and all works fine.
Maybe I should apply for a part time job at Comcast, huh?
The guys that finally showed up at the house knew their stuff though. They
setup some cool stuff for us that the average do-it-yourselfer like me would
never know you could do.
Meanwhile, I've downloaded AVG but have not installed it yet. I read up on
it a bit and it was recommended that you make sure you are current with all
Windows updates for Vista, which I did. There were quite a few updates that
had to be downloaded and installed.
Before I install AVG, I want to get rid of Norton. Whenever I boot up the
computer I get a screen asking me if I want to install it, which I refuse
every time. I want to figure out how to get rid of that before installing
AVG, just to make damn sure there isn't some conflict going on.
Eisboch