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Last night, I had a friend over to watch the game. She brought her laptop because I have a wireless network.
She couldn't get the card to connect properly.
So, she calls another friend to talk her through it.
Within ten minutes, they'd entirely screwed up my network.
And hadn't asked me if they could touch my base station and DSL modem.
I didn't get it to work entirely until 30 minutes ago.
I completely lost my temper last night when it happened. The sox win the world series and I want to talk to all my friends and read and post and whatever and...the network is screwed. I'm sick and can't DO anything and still haven't gotten better and...now I can't connect.
Dunno. Bunch of little stuff and I just lost it. I made my friend cry and hide from me. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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This is why you use encryption on your wireless network, don't tell anyone your router password, and maintain separate admin and user accounts on your primary PC. Let's see 'em mess up your network then.Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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"They reset the router to factory settings. I'm still not sure HOW."
Oh, wow. THAT they can still do, even if you're encrypted, by holding down certain button combinations on the physical router. (Note: this is possible precisely because it's possible to screw up security on your router so badly that you can't connect to it with anything, so it's necessary to have some way to reset the router without requiring a connection.)
And, yeah, anybody with physical access to the router can do it -- but THAT is INCREDIBLY rude. Mouth-droppingly, eye-bogglingly, "you will never be invited to my house again" rude.
It's like coming to someone's house and changing all their radio station presets, or reorganizing their books by title, or setting all their clocks to London time because you like London better.
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I still don't understand friends who's idea of visiting another friend is to go to their house, then promptly spend their time on the computer instead of spending it talking to the friend....
I have (HAD) a friend like that. And I would go to her house to visit her (at her request - she would call) and she'd be planted in front of her computer chatting on IM with a bunch of friends and totally ignoring that I was even there. Really burned me.
I make the kids turn off the computers in our house when we have people over, to keep from being rude. Except for when they invite their cousins over specifically to play computer games...
quote:setting all their clocks to London time because you like London better.
Doesn't everybody? And besides, this shouldn't keep you from being invinted back to Londoner's home's.
In a more serious vein, Tom's right, I would be very unhappy with my so called friends if the begin screwing with my wireless router. Perhaps I'd walk into their home and take out all of their locks and then re-arrange their kitchen so everything is at least 3 inches out of their reach ... hmmm ... perhaps not, but I would want to!
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In an emergency, can't you just take out the router and connect directly to the modem? I know I can do that with my cable modem.
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Yes, but in my sickness and stunned sox winning the world series brain state, I forgot that my DSL is ppoe and not dynamic.
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