My word, Ants in a Wifi router. What next! On 27 Sep 2013, at 21:05, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Years ago (1998?) I had been renting a wifi router box from my cable provider > for a while and then decided to keep the money to myself and buy my own unit. > I purposly purchased two separate boxes - the cable modem and the > wifi/router. Over the years I've upgraded my wifi a couple times as the world > moved through the alphabet of standards and speeds. Most recently I swapped > out my old Netgear 802.11G box for an Airport extreme after an unpleasant > attempt to use a D-Link DIR-628 802.11N. Just last week my cable mode died > after about 9 years of service so I was able to replace that with a newer > faster Motorola SurfBoard DOCSIS 3.0 modem. In other words, this might be a > good time to replace the all-in-one with separate boxes for long term sanity. > > As a side note, my first owned modem met an early demise after my (then) > girlfriend and I returned from a weekend trip to discover a colony of ants > had moved into it. There were ants everywhere moving eggs and such into their > new warm comfy wifi hotel. We only noticed because the wifi wasn't working. > The whole thing went into a trash bag. > > CB > > On 9/27/13 9:10 AM, Cait and Maggie wrote: >> Hi, >> We just got an extreme and I have a few questions. >> >> We currently have one of those modem/router boxes from our internet >> provider. We want to replace the router in that box with the extreme. >> >> How is this done? Do I deactivate the router in the modem box, then attach >> the extreme to the box and configure the extreme? >> >> >> Talking to our internet provider about the extreme wouldn't be helpful, as >> they don't like people using other devices, even though you can do this. >> thanks for any info, >> Cait >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
