PSA: Never try to explain how to install a router over the phone.

[Quasmo]

I tried explaining to my girlfriend how to install a netgear wireless router over the phone. The problem is that it doesn't come with two ethernet cables, and it doesn't come with the wireless enabled. By the end of the conversation she was yelling at me, and she was almost crying. Damn it I hate long distance relationships.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I tried explaining to my girlfriend how to install a netgear wireless router over the phone. The problem is that it doesn't come with two ethernet cables, and it doesn't come with the wireless enabled. By the end of the conversation she was yelling at me, and she was almost crying. Damn it I hate long distance relationships.

:laugh:

i know what you mean. i have a good friend in kansas i was talking to a couple of weeks ago. she was trying to figure out how to put a bit in this electric drill her dad got her, and tighten it...i swear, trying to help her with that was a bad, bad badbadbad idea

 

[TheInternet1980]

lol. No phone 4 u.

In all seriousness, network setups should be done in person.

Unless the person on the phone wants to install the included CD, and go through wizards, etc.

 

[Shawn]

Find a new GF.

 

[Quasmo]

How do you explain to someone what a crossover cable is, and why it will work with their old router but not their new one?

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
How do you explain to someone what a crossover cable is, and why it will work with their old router but not their new one?

Avoid the setup help, and head right for the phone nookie

 

[Baked]

Should've bought a linksys wireless-G. It's good to go right outta the box. Buy any Cat5 cable from office depot. Done and done.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: Baked
Should've bought a linksys wireless-G. It's good to go right outta the box. Buy any Cat5 cable from office depot. Done and done.

On a side note, I had a buddy of mine pickup a Linksys wireless G router from Wal-Mart a few months back, and offered to set it up for him.

Long story short, I could not access this router, until running the included disc on the machine in question. Needless to say I was quite pissed. Took me a good 10 minutes of "WTF this is the ip address of this router...work", before I relented and ran the damn disc.

After that good to go, from any machine in the house. Weird.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Baked
Should've bought a linksys wireless-G. It's good to go right outta the box. Buy any Cat5 cable from office depot. Done and done.

On a side note, I had a buddy of mine pickup a Linksys wireless G router from Wal-Mart a few months back, and offered to set it up for him.

Long story short, I could not access this router, until running the included disc on the machine in question. Needless to say I was quite pissed. Took me a good 10 minutes of "WTF this is the ip address of this router...work", before I relented and ran the damn disc.

After that good to go, from any machine in the house. Weird.

i never had that problem and ive set up several of those

apple airports now...christ. you cant get in via http like you can with most routers. i didnt have the app on my laptop to get into it and had to use someones old imac, with one of those evil "ooooh the entire thing is the button!" mice *cringe*

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Baked
Should've bought a linksys wireless-G. It's good to go right outta the box. Buy any Cat5 cable from office depot. Done and done.

On a side note, I had a buddy of mine pickup a Linksys wireless G router from Wal-Mart a few months back, and offered to set it up for him.

Long story short, I could not access this router, until running the included disc on the machine in question. Needless to say I was quite pissed. Took me a good 10 minutes of "WTF this is the ip address of this router...work", before I relented and ran the damn disc.

After that good to go, from any machine in the house. Weird.

Factory reset button?

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: Exterous

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: Baked
Should've bought a linksys wireless-G. It's good to go right outta the box. Buy any Cat5 cable from office depot. Done and done.

On a side note, I had a buddy of mine pickup a Linksys wireless G router from Wal-Mart a few months back, and offered to set it up for him.

Long story short, I could not access this router, until running the included disc on the machine in question. Needless to say I was quite pissed. Took me a good 10 minutes of "WTF this is the ip address of this router...work", before I relented and ran the damn disc.

After that good to go, from any machine in the house. Weird.

Factory reset button?

Tried...didn't work.

After I ran the disc, I could get in via HTTP from any computer in the home. Before running the disc on 1 machine, no one could get in.

Maybe they sent wal-mart a "special" version, that required the router to interface with the software, before accessing via HTTP? Only thing I can think of really.