LinkSys Router With The Mac
I lost an entire day working in our new office, trying to get the Linksys router to work with the SBC modem. We have the setup at our home office - with the Linksys router working with Charter Cable.
SBC says we have to bridge the modem, but that kills the internet. If we just plug and play, the router can't recognize that we have an internet connection.
So today, I talked to an expert, a friend of ours that knows everything there is to know about connectivity, as he's the CEO of a high-end hosting company.
His advice? Go to the Apple Store and buy an Airport Base Station. It's cheaper then spending more time trying to troubleshoot the LinkSys router.
He's right, and we're going to do it, but it offends my tech sensibilites, as I once knew how to do this stuff. And the worst part is I don't know if I should blame user error, Linksys, or SBC. I have the sinking feeling that the problem lies with Durbin Media tech support (one of my many titles).
SBC says we have to bridge the modem, but that kills the internet. If we just plug and play, the router can't recognize that we have an internet connection.
So today, I talked to an expert, a friend of ours that knows everything there is to know about connectivity, as he's the CEO of a high-end hosting company.
His advice? Go to the Apple Store and buy an Airport Base Station. It's cheaper then spending more time trying to troubleshoot the LinkSys router.
He's right, and we're going to do it, but it offends my tech sensibilites, as I once knew how to do this stuff. And the worst part is I don't know if I should blame user error, Linksys, or SBC. I have the sinking feeling that the problem lies with Durbin Media tech support (one of my many titles).
Labels: airport base station, linksys, sbc dsl
posted by James Durbin @ 6:42 PM PERMALINK
2 Comments:
Indeed, the biggest single problem in getting stuff like this to work is usually down to PBKAC ...
... Problem Between Keyboard And Chair.
Been there. Done that. :-)
Guys, I just put a $ dollar sign before the hexadecimal password that I use in the windows laptop and it worked fine in my MacMini. Sounds ridiculous, but that's it.
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