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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  Hi Jeanie:
Long time no see!!! Hope all is well.
Thanks for the empathy, and it looks like you too are pretty warm in TX.
No cool Fall stuff on the horizon here so far, hope it drops by soon.
Have a cool one on me. :-) |
Oh, Dottie, it's a long, painful story!!!!!! You know what happened? My 20th century DSL just suddenly up and died Sat. before last & I've been busy signing up for and waiting for a wifi install which I finally got yesterday - only to find out my laptop wifi card wouldn't turn on(!). I had to go out today & buy a wifi adapter and finally got back online! Now my home security service(previously connected through my landline phone service) doesn't seem to be sending a signal through to the monitoring office(though the alarm goes off loud as ever when triggered !?!?) and so the wifi service is sending another tech out tomorrow to be sure all is set up correctly.
Plus, the installer yesterday left off a face panel that covers up a hole in the wall lots of satellite, phone, speaker cables come through and I'm thanking God I have no bugs or mice in the walls or who knows what would be walking my floors tonight!
And my wifi isn't talking to my DirecTV satellite receiver, so I can't get On Demand programming! I've paid for access to it for over a year but w/out internet hook-up, I couldn't access it unless I went through a very, very slow adapter which I unhooked after a week! Took 3 hours to download one program!
Now I've got to call them and have them walk me through what to do - according to the Account Specialist at the wifi provider. Supposedly my new wifi modem is a router/modem and could connect either wirelessly or with an ethernet cable but the steps DirecTV gives me in their on-screen menu for connecting to the internet using either wireless, a plug adapter or wired options, all look like an ethernet cable is required - which the wifi people - naturally - do not provide.
But the thing is, I
can get on the Internet through my Sony Blu-Ray player for the free stuff like Crackle and YouTube, but once I register through my Sony Blue-Ray service - which I couldn't do yesterday as I my laptop wifi card wasn't working - I can then register/join Netflix, etc., through that connection. But I can't get to my DirecTV On Demand programming through the blu-ray player! I'm SO confused.
So off I go searching through my spare TV, cable and speaker wires and things or Best Buy tomorrow to try to find or buy an ethernet cable so I can hook my new wifi modem to the satellite receiver and hopefully all will work once I've gone through the set-up! I think I probably have an old ethernet cable here from back from that old, slow adapter hook-up I took out but just can't remember. At this point, my brain is totally scrambled.
I just told Jenny(minimomo) a while ago that it's a painful thing to get dragged into the 21st century all in one day! And the registering you have to do. Register with the wifi network, register this, register that, get re-connected and set up with the wifi provider's email network, register with Sony, then Netflix and on and on. I'm going to be filling out online forms from now on! And I've run totally OUT of usernames and passwords!!!!!!!!!! And I've still got to call and cancel my old AT&T landline and DSL network but I've just run out of steam tonight!!!
Help!!! Somebody find the 1990's for me - I think it was easier back then! But it wasn't any cooler here in Texas.
