After a few weeks of using our dsl connection, we decided to purchase a wifi router so that everyone could use the internet at the same time. They had to pry me from the host pc before they could use it. hehe
So we ended up with CDR-King’s very own wifi router called Encore. I was quite hesitant about it cause I was afraid that it won’t last or won’t even be effective. Yet, last October 31, we bought one from them.
It may sound hilarious but I was excited to get home to configure it. And right after my workout with an office buddy, I faced traffic along EDSA, survived hunger and went straight to my task.
Yes, I called it the way I said I would and for a few minutes it was working. Until I applied Security Settings and Access Control for notebooks. *tadan* Request Timed Out. I re-configure everything after reset and still the same. Even the host computer didn’t have an internet connection at all but a client notebook had. That’s freakin’ weird alright.
Hours had passed me by and I was on the verge of giving up. I was so exhausted, my mind was so tired. But my ideas didn’t abandon me. I tried including the host computer’s mac address in Access Control thinking it might be the cause of all chaos. Guess what, I was right! Home LAN was working blissfully, woohoo!! And so far, I’m satisfied with it.
Additional Note: Just now, while searching for Encore’s Picture for this blog entry, I read that there are people who are having a hard time configuring it. I hope this blog post could help them out.
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Funny, I posted my modem woes just tonight. Then I decided to check on linuxedstuff.com.
We get stressed out trying to figure out what we think as a very trivial tech problem but in the end it’s just a not-so-trivial solution that can solve it.
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Hehe, I agree. At least, we managed on our own
) woohoo!!
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