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15 years ago
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Info on prices and skillset there, as well as my best examples.
http://h1.ripway.com/ucnux/XuncuFla.....teV2/home.html
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Info on prices and skillset there, as well as my best examples.
http://h1.ripway.com/ucnux/XuncuFla.....teV2/home.html
http://h1.ripway.com/ucnux/Flash%20.....uncu_flash.htm
OK, so, I got my computer, mostly for porn, and back when we had only one, I had to hide my pron really well; obviously, this is easier.
Then, --
well, the family's first was a desktop, back in the dialup days.
Then I got a laptop for my 18th birthday, which lasted a few years, then when we got high-speed, wifi was still a myth, so it had to be cat-5 cable. And the modem had only one slot, and apparently, there's only so many times you can switch the wire between computers before it starts to be a bitch, then you have to do this thing in cmd and ipconfig. Then, apparently, there's a limit on that, too. So, we got wifi. Early wifi, so if someone used the cordless phones, knocks it right out. Also, if we were both on at the same time, it'd get knocked out. Several years of that crap, new phone that promised it wouldn't do that fucking shit again, except once or twice I swear it did (possibly also the fucking microwave, for fuck's sake).
Then, december, this whole shitfest of days without internet, talked our ISP into providing a new modem, with wifi (previously having the one-slot modem to a wireless router, so more parts, more to go wrong; see previous note about "both computers online at same time, internet dies"). They sent us two, for some reason (in the same box, no less). We were told the account would be waived by crediting our account the price of the new modem, making it effectively free. Then we get a bill for the modem, at a different price than what I was told.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeen, yesterday, before class, it goes out again, and I JUST got back online, after hours fo calls and turning the thing on and off.
Cuz I noticed something for every freeze-up, every time I call: after they suppsoedly do theri tech-support thing (Version, FYI), it takes several hours before whatever they do on their end to take effect and my internet to come abck, as it did this time.
.... and EVERY FUCKING TIME it freezes in the first place, it's my dad who gets online and knocks the whole fucking thing out. Never my mom, though she's more likeley to visit sites that'll spambot the computer "me and him" (my dad) got for her (in effect: I did the shopping, he paid, and it's intended to them to use--- before, they had a laptop dad's work provided for him; they wanted a biggger screen, for starters).
Every. Single. Time: he causes it to fuck up. >_<
Then, --
well, the family's first was a desktop, back in the dialup days.
Then I got a laptop for my 18th birthday, which lasted a few years, then when we got high-speed, wifi was still a myth, so it had to be cat-5 cable. And the modem had only one slot, and apparently, there's only so many times you can switch the wire between computers before it starts to be a bitch, then you have to do this thing in cmd and ipconfig. Then, apparently, there's a limit on that, too. So, we got wifi. Early wifi, so if someone used the cordless phones, knocks it right out. Also, if we were both on at the same time, it'd get knocked out. Several years of that crap, new phone that promised it wouldn't do that fucking shit again, except once or twice I swear it did (possibly also the fucking microwave, for fuck's sake).
Then, december, this whole shitfest of days without internet, talked our ISP into providing a new modem, with wifi (previously having the one-slot modem to a wireless router, so more parts, more to go wrong; see previous note about "both computers online at same time, internet dies"). They sent us two, for some reason (in the same box, no less). We were told the account would be waived by crediting our account the price of the new modem, making it effectively free. Then we get a bill for the modem, at a different price than what I was told.
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeen, yesterday, before class, it goes out again, and I JUST got back online, after hours fo calls and turning the thing on and off.
Cuz I noticed something for every freeze-up, every time I call: after they suppsoedly do theri tech-support thing (Version, FYI), it takes several hours before whatever they do on their end to take effect and my internet to come abck, as it did this time.
.... and EVERY FUCKING TIME it freezes in the first place, it's my dad who gets online and knocks the whole fucking thing out. Never my mom, though she's more likeley to visit sites that'll spambot the computer "me and him" (my dad) got for her (in effect: I did the shopping, he paid, and it's intended to them to use--- before, they had a laptop dad's work provided for him; they wanted a biggger screen, for starters).
Every. Single. Time: he causes it to fuck up. >_<
Sounds like your dad is fucking around with settings and stuff. and yes get a new isp.
Also, when he gets on their computer, it takes out the internet on my computer, and resetting the modem usually fixes it (except when it decides to be difficult, like these times).