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Comcast Meltdown
Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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 Ahhhhh...You've found one of the many Norton aggravators. Really. There are pages and pages of URLs that lead to ways to resolve problems incurred in complete removal of Norton from a computer. I kid you not. I stopped using Norton some years ago because I could not get it to update certain modules no matter what, and neither could the "tech support" guys in Bombay. Good luck! |
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