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you should check if you actually got an IP address, etc via DHCP

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's not a laptop so I can't be bothered moving it.

Sorry Jon, I don't know what that means.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh - hang on, I underestimate myself.

Under Network Preferences, I discover I do indeed have an Airport IP address that is different to the one from my dialup connection.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It says "169.254.123.104 (Self-assigned)"

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

self assigned = your computer tried to generate one that could feasibly work but most likely won't

try to setup airport to get a DHCP address and then bring it up again

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I do that? Sorry to be useless - feel free to give up on me if you want.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(copied from ILM)

Ha, I've got a laptop question for anyone kind enough to help out. I got my editing studio set up last night with my PC laptop (Cubase, Reason, external hard drive, no problems).
However, I've got some studio monitors with XLR and 1/4" outs and no cable. Do I just need to get an adapter to plug them into the 1/8" headphone jack of my laptop, and is this the best way to do things? I wasn't going to buy an external sound card because I'm just planning on doing editing, not recording, on this setup. I just want to make sure the 1/8" laptop connection will be okay for quality/power.

I'm computer-retarded btw.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to airport question -- are you in OS X?

http://web.mit.edu/is/services/network/dhcp/wireless/macos10.3.html

has a bit telling you how to set it to DHCP

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Mario&Yuko (and maybe Alba too) -- try going to Active Network Ports in the Network preferences and disabling, applying, then reenabling, the wireless connection.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I went through all that, Jon. All the setting were already as dictated (I'm on 10.2.8 rather than 10.3, but it all looked the same). I moved Airport above Internal Modem in the list of Network Port Configurations too.

When I open Internet Connect and switch to Airport, I get 'Status: Status not available' at the bottom, instead of the 'Connected to blah blah', send/receive bars and IP address reading that I get with Internal Modem.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ALBA. hello.

what EXACTLY happens when you click on belkin54g from the pulldown airport menu?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

because it's either supposed to tell you you have to enter a password, automatically connect you, or tell you that you tried to join a restricted network.

there should be no other configuring necessary.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty, I think there's no DHCP server so it "guesses" an ip after it joins the network

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty - nothing happens as such. I'm not sure what you mean by 'click on' though. I mean, as I say, belkin54g has a tick next to it.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

disconnect it and reconnect

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've done that. I mean if I *did* want to look at what was on the belin54g network's servers, how would I even do that. If I go to Finder, it's not there, and if I choose 'Connect to server' there it searches without finding anything.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit - it suddenly works. What was that horsepr0n thing again?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This is so freaky. 50 kb/s and I've paid nothing. Err.. how likely is it that the owner of this wi-fi network is going to find out and do something bad to me?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, maybe I should turn mine on and see what happens.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What shall I do? What's a good internet radio station?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

just enjoy your free internet.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

your on a desktop, so the joy of internetting in bed is not an option.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU'RE.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The joy of wetting the bed is still a possibility though.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so our broadband coonection finally seems to be working, however, we've got a linksys wireless router and a linksys card, only about twenty metres apart with no real big walls in the way either, and the best signal I can get is 3 bars out of ten on my b'band monitor :o(

downloads are running at only about 2.3 kbps, which is bleeding slower than when I was on dial-up. Anyone got any ideas (apart from running a cable the length of the house)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 15 August 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

are you sure you are successfully connecting to your router as opposed to someone elses nearby? that would explain the poor signal.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

things you should do to your wireless router:

1. change the name from "linksys" or "netgear"
2. turn off SSID broadcast
3. enable WEP
4. enable MAC filtering
5. password protect router from generic ADMIN password

if you have a WRT54G you can install better firmware from sveasoft.com which will boost your signal, give you bandwidth management options, and a multitude of other cool shit.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, thanks Cutty, it's definitely ours, I just moved the pooter out of the cupboard and bosted the signal to 5 bars and am getting a better download now, much better in fact.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

and now a dumb set of questions - that stuff you tell me to do, (changing password and changing name apart, I can see why to do that) what does it do/why is it beneficial?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

porkpie, do you live in a densely populated area? basically these are precautions against someone else hopping on your network, stealing bandwidth, and generally being capable of doing BAD THINGS to your computer/network/etc if they really wanted to.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

My free wireless internet seems to be very intermittent. The network is always there, with decent enough signal strength, but half the time I get stuck on that DHCP self-assigned IP address shit. I googled the problem and it seems to be quite common, even when one isn't robbing someone else's connection, which makes me a bit worries about this whole wireless thing when I actually get my own ADSL next month.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Cutty, we are yes, but I can't trace any other servers/routers. What is WEP for instance and the ssid? The router set-up says to be careful over switching these.

The speeds are cracking at the moment, which is good, we just have to leave the box out of the cupboard.

― Vicky (Vicky), Sunday, 15 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I have a cable modem connection, yet when I share files via slsk or AIM, etc., the transfer speeds are incredibly slow. What am I doing wrong?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

help this man out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

help me to help YOU!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

is the download speed slow too, or just your upload speed? I vaguely remember that they capped upload speeds when I had a cable modem (different ISP).

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of both.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

bump

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hard to say without looking but some ideas:

1) your firewall (if you have one) may be interfering
2) their firewall (if they have one) may be interfering
3) their connection speed (if they have one) may be much much slower, especially if they are on 56k, isdn, or DSL. (DSL upload speed is usually much slower than download)
4) HA HA YOU EFFED IT UP

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My firewall is definitely switched off.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There's also the possibility that your provider may have throttled down speeds for specific types of data to prevent people in your area from suffering for your downloading. If you're just getting this problem using a P2P program, it's a possibility.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it happend when I send files though AIM as well.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it happens when I send files though AIM as well.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

There's your problem - it's uploading all the data packets twice over.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what my boring computer problem is? That the Sims 2 isn't coming out on Mac!!!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of connection to the Internet do you have? Are you using a modem or a router?

― bert (bert), Monday, 30 August 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what my boring computer problem is? That the Sims 2 isn't coming out on Mac!!!!!

Incorrect. It IS coming out for the Mac.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 30 August 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

To answer Bert-I am using an external cable modem.

I have a new one now, an oldie but goodie - why do I only get, at most, 2.5 hours of battery time from my powerbook battery when it is fully charged?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Reduce the number of extensions and control panels that load by using an extension manager program.

What does this mean?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh.

Bluetooth on new superduper powerbook 15" (running panther) no longer works - says no bluetooth hardware attached, which is odd, cos it was built in.

Any ideas?

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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