Problems with Shaw cable internet these past few days

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• meesh

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  Alriiight, nevermind I fixed it myself.
  
  Apparently the problem was a mixture of the internet service in my neighbourhood AND my wireless router. yeesh.
• Kevin M.

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  Glad you got it working :)
  
  Last Winter in January, we had a huge power outage so I had no internet or anything for a few days. I basically lived at the coffee shop down the street for that time so that I could get my work done.
• imelting

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  kinda ot, but sometimes u just dont realize how life would really suck w/o the internet
• meesh

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  yeah i didn't realize how dependent I am for communicating on the internet.
  
  but what sucks EVEN MORE now is that my hard drive just died this morning. I called AppleCare and when I told the rep that the start up screen just has a folder and a question mark, the girl was like "uh oh." and I was like "oh shit, that doesn't sound good..."
  on the bright side, at least i don't have to pay for the repair..
  
  I have a midterm tomorrow morning and my profs' lecture notes were on there. fucking great. but all i can do at this point is just laugh it off.....hahahaha... :(
  
  moral of the story: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!
• illicit

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  meesh;17140 said:

  
  
  moral of the story: don't use wireless internet signal unless you need to!!!

  fixed!
  
  wireless signal is limited to speed significantly
  wireless signal strength depends on building material / external frequencies (eg radio, phones)
  wireless signal allows others to use your internet and slow it down if not secured properly
• meesh

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  illicit;17177 said:

  fixed!
  
  wireless signal is limited to speed significantly
  wireless signal strength depends on building material / external frequencies (eg radio, phones)
  wireless signal allows others to use your internet and slow it down if not secured properly

  I beg to differ. I find my wireless connection at home to be very fast because of the advancement of router technology--my router transmits at 2.5Ghz and the transfer rate is 100Mbps+. Also, my family has....3 laptops and 3 desktop computers...so being connected through the cables is a hassle.
  
  Our wireless is also password protected so yeah people can't steal my bandwidth.
  Wireless signal strength can be interfered by external frequencies but this can be avoided simply by placing the router somewhere where isn't near a cordless phone and is placed in a relatively open area. My sister's desktop runs on wireless in the basement and her transfer speeds are still ridiculously fast (as observed by torrent downloads =P ). and if the there are a lot of wireless connections around my neighbourhood, all i have to do is switch the channel to avoid interference--usually routers can find the best channel frequency to operate these days.
  
  so really, if someone doesn't know how to configure their wireless router then, yeah they will suffer from slow speeds..
• NukeChem

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  Yeah, I bought a basic Linksys router and I'm quite happy with it. Re the Shaw outage - yeah, I remember there was one earlier... last week-ish. Thought it was a "hey, asshole, pay your bill" kind of thing, but it turned out to be an outage at the headend or something similar.
  
  Wasn't fun using the SFU dialup - I'm so spoiled. :teeth:
• illicit

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  meesh;17179 said:

  I beg to differ. I find my wireless connection at home to be very fast because of the advancement of router technology--my router transmits at 2.5Ghz and the transfer rate is 100Mbps+. Also, my family has....3 laptops and 3 desktop computers...so being connected through the cables is a hassle.
  
  Our wireless is also password protected so yeah people can't steal my bandwidth.
  Wireless signal strength can be interfered by external frequencies but this can be avoided simply by placing the router somewhere where isn't near a cordless phone and is placed in a relatively open area. My sister's desktop runs on wireless in the basement and her transfer speeds are still ridiculously fast (as observed by torrent downloads =P ). and if the there are a lot of wireless connections around my neighbourhood, all i have to do is switch the channel to avoid interference--usually routers can find the best channel frequency to operate these days.
  
  so really, if someone doesn't know how to configure their wireless router then, yeah they will suffer from slow speeds..

  i'm assuming you're using wireless-N then? since you're achieving those speeds. and what cable service are you getting, the extreme speed?
  
  i based those points on the average wireless-G with regular cable.
  
  but definitely it's great that it all works out for your household with those kinds of speeds.
• NukeChem

  November 2007 edited November 2007

  I just bought a Linksys WRT54GL and DD-WRT'ed it. Kicked on the Afterburner, and locked it down. I'll be curious to see how my roommate's P2P stands up with the new firmware. :)