i think i'll put a boring warning on this one. sigh. eyeroll. sorry.
relentlessness is a specialty of mine. and when it comes to someting as crucial as fast internet, well, my relentlessness knows few, if any bounds.
nine came and went, and there was no change in any of the indicators, all of them glowing green in the right places. the modem saw the LAN, the LAN saw the modem and the computers saw each other. one small problem, there was no internet.
so i sat here knitting brow furrows, as if clenched facial muscles would help? why do i do that anyway? and it occurred to me that since i had just logged into my linksys via its IP, that surely the telocity modem had an IP of its own. a quick google search and 10.5.1.2, and sure enough there i am looking at my modem in the browser. and it's fully configured - to the obsolete telocity addresses. the only thing i can do is turn off the multiple computer support, which i do, just in case that helps, and it doesn't.
i call tech support, he calls me back. i tell him about the modem settings, and how i even dug up my old telocity software to see if it would allow me to reconfigure the thing, and that i couldn't. he does some searching of his own and, well, telocity had this wonderful self-configuration thing going on, it's what made it so easy for me to set it up in the first place. the bottom line is, it's the right type of modem for their service, it just won't actually work.
so i ask, can this be hacked? he says that's what he was looking for too, and it doesn't look good. sure, i can have one of their modems tomorrow, but what's the fun in that?
i'm off to google to see what i can see.
Fear not kd, you were right, I discovered that for a brief period recently the Internet ceased to exist.
Of course, I wasn't online at the time so I can't testify to it, but it does seem that the Internet ceases to exist every time I log off... strange that...
The internet doesn't exist? Hell, the internet is a fraud and a total hoax. Just like the moon landings. It's a government plot to provide a false opiate to the masses. Really, the computer is really a television, and when you look at a new internet site you really are just changing channels.
you are so hardcore, kd.
i think i "saw" the "real" internet last night. it's completely blank. empty. my DSL indicator in the taskbar was green, but the misconfiguration apparently allowed me to see what's behind the curtain.
all this stuff you see? all these "websites"? just like those fake towns in old hollywood westerns. there appears to be something there, but really, there is no there there.
it's empty. except for an error message. i must study the error message, perhaps it contains the answer.
The Tao of the error message...
i'd rather be contemplating the Speed of the DSL, but hey, whatever works (or doesn't)
And here you were wondering why they needed to know what color it was... Unconfigurable hardware == grrrrr...
I'll tell you one thing, irs.gov is definitely there, in all its mocking "look! I'm trying to help you get what you need, you just have to know EXACTLY what it is you are looking for. I made it helpful by giving it a number rather than a description. I assure you we have it, so you can't use that as an excuse" glory.
guess what I'm doing today?
I know this is a hard day so I just wanted to tell you that I love you and if you need me, I am always here.
fascinating things out there. on 12-27 a guy posted this on dslreports forum: "All configuration is performed remotely by ISP. Soon, I'm planning to release a config server that would simulate DTV's servers so independent ISPs can provide service to ex-DTV customers." -- other than that, folks have discovered that they float, and expressed the wish to see if they blow up real good.
hell with it, i'm going to bed.
Well there is the philosophical argument that the people who present themselves online in their journals and blogs are simply showing off a facade, the best one they can manage...