Ok, rewriting this on my lovely windows machine, which loves to either restart itself unexpectedly or completely freeze! It will be reformated asap. Did I mention I adore my Mac? Btw, sorry if this is inappropriate for this list, but a few people from here asked me about this.
Basically, the last month has been pure hell with comcast. They came two weeks ago, got the net to work and then it went out two ours later. they came on Friday, got it to work again and after 20 minutes, it stopped working. They came yesterday and we did a little better. It worked until 11 last night, didn't come back until mid morning and then it went out later in the day and hasn't come back yet. They've Oh, and Friday, they changed the channel that it connects to so that whenever it came back on and the phone rang, I'd get kicked off. We got wireless in the hopes that our previous problems (same ones) with just the ethernet cable would stop, but they obviously didn't. Sometimes, the main computer will work and the other two won't. I spoke with a friend who's been using computers since 1971 and we did a few things with the dos prompt and the ip address, but nothing worked. This phone line used to belong to our tennent and he had problems with the cable and phone all the time (he was far from an internet user of any kind). When he died, we brought it down to us and got rid of our old number. I din't know if any of this has to do with anything, but that's the story. Oh, and one of the guys on the phone tech support hung up on me when I was quickly calling my friend to get something explained. He was talking about left clicking and right clicking, and I told him that I was blind at which point he did the "oh I didn't know, I can't help you" thing and while I was on with my friend I heard a click from the other phone. It amazes me that no one knows any keyboard shortcuts. Also, he didn't even ask me which system I was using. He automatically assumed it was windows and started telling me what to do. I think he'd have a heart attack if I told him I had a Mac as well. According to the supervisor, he's now under investigation, and the head tech was also annoyed at his conduct. so yeah. I'm not very happy with comcast at the moment. (And yes, I chose not to capitalise certain words on purpose.) Later, Tiffanitsa On 2/10/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Tiff, > > We need to get to the bottom of the comcast thing. Is it a wireless issue, > a router issue a comcast issue??? > > Have you for instance been able to et a connection by plugging the modem > directly into your mackbook? If you can do that, can you get a connection > with the modem connected to the router and your macbook connected to the > router? If you cahn do that, we need to look at the wireless issue. If > everything is setup right, we need to figure out what is interfering with > your connection and there are plenty of possibilities and work arounds. > Some MacBooks don't have much wireless range so you may need to see if you > can get an usb wireless adaptor that will work with your Macbook. I think > there are other options here but they are less certain to work. I also do > not know if there is even a usb wireless adaptor that will work with the > mac. > > The reason to bother with all this is that using dial up will be more of a > pain than you might realize especially if there is a choice. > > I hope this can be sorted out. I know others have tried and died, but I've > been able to successfully trouble a number of comcast issues. > > >
