Every fucking time I do anything with networking I can’t get it to work for at least good week, this INCLUDES coming back to networks I already set up in other places.
The first time I set up a router it was fine, eventually it stopped working (like, wouldn’t turn on) after years of service and I got a Netgear rangemax, which I was assured to be “awesome” and that they “never had one come back.” God knows why I keep getting the same one because it ALWAYS fucking hates me. I tried to set it up at home, followed the instructions to the letter, it just up and decided “I’m not going to listen to you” I did the exact same setup process the CD gave me at least 10 times a day, for four days straight and on something like the ninth on the last day doing the exact same method I’d been using before… it worked. Why? 'Cause.
I took CCNA at school, failed the class because I refused to lie about the router pinging correctly. I was covering Unit 8 material with the teacher to complete Chapter 2, took me 3 months to get the old donated school routers and switches… and hubs, did I mention these are enterprise models from 6 or 7 years ago?) to ping correctly, I fixed the entirety of the CCNA lab (a back room from the Tech lab that was used exclusively for Comp Sci students to play with OS’s and CCNA students to do labs on the various routers, switches, and hubs) but I was so behind I couldn’t catch up on all the work for the rest of the semester because I was too honest to lie about whether it pinged or not (everyone else just made up something like “2ms” and moved on, I hate my dedication to not cheating).
I set up a router at my apartment for college this happens. Also, I had to broadcast my SSID because my laptop apparently doesn’t take kindly to the idea of connecting to hidden networks (“that network already exists!” Yes, and you’re not autoconnecting so I’m doing it manually again, LISTEN TO ME)
Now I come back home, my mom was working in my room with a wired connection, but since I’m (temporarily) moving back home to switch schools and my room is small I needed the room/wire for my desktop. It worked last night, with a bit of a hassle, then at about 4PM today it decides “nope, your laptop ain’t no good here.” (haven’t gotten around to setting up the desktop, and I can talk with my mom if I use my laptop in the living room instead of retreating to the back like a hermit) I tried, for 3 hours, to do stuff, resetting it to factory settings, taking off security, changing the SSID. Eventually it actually stops broadcasting a wireless signal, I mean it literally won’t accept wireless connection from ANYTHING (and started smoking, which usually isn’t good). So I go to Best Buy and sigh say it with me, buy the same model like an idiot (why? Insanity and that was the only model they had in stock). And now it keeps deciding during the setup process I’m following to the letter that it’s having trouble configuring the IP. I’m posting directly through the modem right now, I’m ready to buy six of these things and sacrifice them to some profane god just to make it work, but I hate this thing SO fucking much right now.
Though I admit, the venting felt good. If anyone can offer any config ideas it’s a WPN824v3.