Router Fail
Feb. 9th, 2010 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithI haven't had home wireless capability for some months now. I didn't do anything about it because having the internet access in hardwire mode kept me from wasting as much time online as I had been. But I miss it. I don't like it not working, and I can't work the day job from home without wireless.
I spent some time this morning resetting, rebooting, shutting down and starting up, to no avail. My Extreme Base Station is not allowing internet connection or assigning IP addresses. What is weird is that it works locally--I can wirelessly save to my external back-up drive from a laptop. I just can't go online.
I've had the cable modem hooked up to the MacBook for months now, with zero dropped connections. I believe that points to the router as the issue. So I have a date with the Genius Bar on Sunday morning. Maybe they can fix it, but peripherals rate as essentially disposable these days, so maybe they won't bother. If they find that the router is kablooey, I'll be getting a new one.
Weather. I don't know about this particular Snowpocalypse. It looks kinda fizzley now--only a couple of inches on the ground. I may go out and shovel later. The snow is supposed to pick up tonight, which means I may be shoveling waaay early tomorrow morning because of course I have a training class at 7am.
I spent some time this morning resetting, rebooting, shutting down and starting up, to no avail. My Extreme Base Station is not allowing internet connection or assigning IP addresses. What is weird is that it works locally--I can wirelessly save to my external back-up drive from a laptop. I just can't go online.
I've had the cable modem hooked up to the MacBook for months now, with zero dropped connections. I believe that points to the router as the issue. So I have a date with the Genius Bar on Sunday morning. Maybe they can fix it, but peripherals rate as essentially disposable these days, so maybe they won't bother. If they find that the router is kablooey, I'll be getting a new one.
Weather. I don't know about this particular Snowpocalypse. It looks kinda fizzley now--only a couple of inches on the ground. I may go out and shovel later. The snow is supposed to pick up tonight, which means I may be shoveling waaay early tomorrow morning because of course I have a training class at 7am.
