Karma

[wossname]

The cosmic forces have for many years punished me (for being such a jerk) by making something aggravating happen every time I purchase an expensive piece of computer hardware.

So today I buy a nice shiny new laptop (17" widescreen) and shortly thereafter find out that my route firmware has a bug where it refuses to accept ANY password, especially the one that I set 15 seconds previously.

Then after about 2 hours of spitting, throwing things and swearing loudly, I manage to get everything on the network again - apart from my lovely little netbook, which promptly decided to go on strike and won't connect to the WIFI even after actual prayers to our Holy Father.

I have therefore decided to send Bill Gates £1000 of my hard earned in the hope that this may go some way to redressing the Karmic balance and restore me to the land of the deserved.

But oh lordy it's a nice laptop.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Pffft!!!















I had something else to say, but I totally forgot it as I was deciding how many 'f's to use.

[Siddharth Rout]

Hmmm. Now, why would wossy need a computer hardware?

[abhijit]

The cosmic forces have for many years punished me (for being such a jerk) by making something aggravating happen every time I purchase an expensive piece of computer hardware.

So today I buy a nice shiny new laptop (17" widescreen) and shortly thereafter find out that my route firmware has a bug where it refuses to accept ANY password, especially the one that I set 15 seconds previously.

Then after about 2 hours of spitting, throwing things and swearing loudly, I manage to get everything on the network again - apart from my lovely little netbook, which promptly decided to go on strike and won't connect to the WIFI even after actual prayers to our Holy Father.

I have therefore decided to send Bill Gates £1000 of my hard earned in the hope that this may go some way to redressing the Karmic balance and restore me to the land of the deserved.

But oh lordy it's a nice laptop.

Did you get windows 7?

[DeanMc]

Is it a buffalo router by any chance? I had the same issue and thought I was just having a bad day!

[Siddharth Rout]

@ Abhijit: Now why does he need Windows 7 ??????

You are complicating his already complicated life....

[kregg]

What kind of laptop is it? What about your router, what make is it?

Also, for childish ner-ner sakes, I has a better laptop, so MEH!

[wossname]

Acer laptop (it's nothing fancy) : 2.1ghz dual core athlon, 3gb RAM, 320gb hdd, 17" screen.

Belkin wifi router.

[kregg]

Acer laptop (it's nothing fancy) : 2.1ghz dual core athlon, 3gb RAM, 320gb hdd, 17" screen.

Well, to be honest, I was looking for the model number, but that's my fault since I didn't explicitly asked for it, instead trying to advertise my love for my laptop...

Also, are you using any external wireless usb adaptors, or are you using the inbuilt wifi adaptor? If you are using the built in, it's less likely to have faults, but then again, depending on how old it is, it might be slow and troublesome. Just a heads up.

Belkin wifi router.

Aha! Just as I suspected. Belkin is like marmite to people, some people like them, and people (like me) cannot stand their products. I had a Belkin router before, and it has caused us endless problems. Finally I got it replaced with this Netgear router and I have yet to have any serious problems like I had with Belkin. Don't get me wrong too, some people do have problems with Netgear, but I haven't heard of any of my model. If you dislike Netgear for some reason, you can always try Linksys.

Or, if you want to save money, have you tried accessing the router's address and try upgrading the firmware and/or resetting the router?

If you are using Windows, bring up the Run window by pressing [WIN]+[R], and type

cmd /k ipconfig /all

, and when the program is done, look for the IP Address for the Default Gateway under all that information.

In linux, it's even easier, all you do is type

# route

into any terminal, wait for it to finish, and look "default" under the destination column. That is your router's IP address.

This needs to be done on a PC with a connection to the router or it won't work.

[wossname]

What's going on here, someone's kidnapped klegg and replaced him with someone that's helpful.

I think I'll just let it be for now, I'e got all my devices to connect via wifi now so I'm happy enough.

Thanks for the help now BRING BACK KLEGG!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I think Klegg is a karma chameleon.

[kregg]

[penagate]

Belkin, Netgear, Linksys, and D-Link all suck.


In fact, all consumer networking appliances suck.

[penagate]

I think Klegg is a karma chameleon.

He comes and goes...

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

[kregg]

Belkin, Netgear, Linksys, and D-Link all suck.


In fact, all consumer networking appliances suck.

He comes and goes...

[wossname]

Actually, material possessions and a love for other people are obstacles on the path to enlightenment.

[abhijit]

Actually, material possessions and a love for other people are a obstacles on the path to enlightenment.

Now you're quoting Gautama.

[MasterBlaster]

Belkin Sucks.

They do have good free support though.

[wossname]

WIFI is for llama herders, get some Cat5 and have done with it. (Rough translation)

He has much to teach us.

[EntityX]

I'm glad to see that Buddha is a VBForums member.

[wossname]

He won't help you if you ask him programming questions though.

[abhijit]

Why does my spread control not behave the way I want it to?

[wossname]

Buddha is unconcerned with your trivial coding issues. Bother him not henceforth.

[abhijit]

Buddha said, whenever you think of him, he'll appear.

[wossname]

Only if you say his name 5 times into a mirror.

[abhijit]

He specifically said "Think". I think I've figured out why he's not able to make an appearance.

[wossname]

Because I'm too busy thinking about material things, presumably.