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So, my tale.
When I moved in in July, I set up the Internet. It worked. When my roommates moved in, I set up the wireless router (which one of them had), but it refused to let me set up a password system. I called my tech support. He said that the router was broken and a new one was needed. Roommate #1 said we should call her brother. We did. He had us set up a MAC address filter. Since then (and even then), the router gets pissy when you try to talk to it (the 192.168.1.1 stuff. Getting to the Internet is stable, unless you try to talk to it, or anyone else tries to get on.). It crashes. It also does not let anyone other than me and RM#1 on the wireless, even after I try to change the settings.
Now, the diag light is on solid, and it's not letting me on at all, wired or wireless.
Any ideas on how to fiix it or convince the roommates that, no, it wasn't working fine before?
What type of router is it? Most of them have a hard reset button that will return them to factory defaults.
Linksys. I shall try that
On a linksys you need to press the reset button and hold it in until all the lights flash off. I think it's around 10 seconds.
We had the same problem with ours, and I don't remember how it got fixed. Often the reset button would work, and sometimes unplugging the power to the router for about 20 seconds would work. Sometimes using Windows "Repair Network Connections" would work. Our laptop kept setting up a bridge that wasn't needed and preventing itself from getting on the wireless network; you might check that.
Anybody use or know of flash music players? My DH has asked for one for Xmas, and I'm not sure where to start looking. I'm checking c|net for reviews, but I don't even really know what I'm looking for.
The Nano is a flash music player -- as is the shuffle. Does he have more precise requirements? It's not a small market.
The Nano won't work very well without iTunes, and iTunes requires W2K or better.
There's an AVI I tried playing in VLC on my Powerbook, but all I get is audio and this message:
main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `IV50'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
A quick google indicates that it just won't play on a Mac because of the codec ownership issues, but in general, if VLC doesn't have a codec, what's the OS X only solution? Is there a GSpot or such like?
His requirements are:
- Not the Nano (I could list all the reasons, but it's basically an anti-Apple prejudice)
- as small as possible
- doesn't have to play downloaded/copy-protected music
- decent battery life
- USB 2.0 compatible
