{"id":145,"date":"2002-10-30T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=145"},"modified":"2002-10-30T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T17:14:00","slug":"geek-stuff-ive-been-slowly-upgrading-my-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/30\/geek-stuff-ive-been-slowly-upgrading-my-computer","title":{"rendered":"Geek Stuff I’ve been slowly upgrading my computer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geek Stuff<\/b>
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I’ve been slowly upgrading my computer setup at home for the past few weeks – I’ve recently gotten a cable connection from ATTBI<\/a>, a router\/wireless access point, a wi-fi card for my notebook and a new 60GB hard drive. I’ve had no problems in plugging in all this stuff until I decided that I need to buy my own cable modem (instead of leasing it from the cable company). I figured I’d save a couple of bucks a month and the purchase would eventually pay for itself.<\/p>\n

Being the bargain hunter ever on the lookout, I figured I’d save a few bucks by looking for something on Ebay. After making sure that the cable company supported this modem (after a quick look at their site and a phone call) I was able to get a 3Com 3CR29210<\/a> for $40 shipped – a great savings if you consider that most cable modems go for at least $60+. Great job on the deal, I thought to myself.<\/p>\n

When it finally arrived, I called tech support up and they said that I should be able to connect this with no problem. Just disconnect the old one and reconnect the new one and it should go ahead fine. Right away, this sounded really fishy to me, especially since I’ve worked for a cable internet company, and although I was never directly involved with installing these things, I know for a fact<\/i> that it cannot<\/i> be that simple. There’s the whole process of provisioning the modem to get on the network, which at times can be pretty lengthy. But the tech support insisted that it should take care of itself automatically. So I installed the new modem, and turned it on, waited for a few minutes – no connection at all. Nip, nada, ziparoonio. So I called tech support again and explained the situation, asking if they could please provision the modem on their network… again, I was told that there was no need to do so. I should try installing the old modem to see if it worked, and if it did, then the modem was the problem. Well, of course, the modem that they supply works because it’s already provisioned on their system<\/b>. So I thought I would try again the next night and see if I could get semi-intelligent tech person that knew what the hell provisioning was. Again, no luck, and this time they even started getting rude.<\/p>\n

Anyway, even though I’m sure that the cable modem I bought works, I’m going to have to return it simply because the morons at ATTBI tech support don’t know how to get a “supported product” up and running. I’ll try my luck with another modem, maybe a Motorola or Toshiba and see if I can get that to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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