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I need help with the whole Smart Panel/hub/ethernet outlets thing, Liese and anyone else who knows what that's about.
Now that I'm actually in the house and (finally!) have internet set up: So I've got a cable modem. And hooked up to that, a wireless router. Those are downstairs. The smart panel is upstairs. I have a hub. What do I hook into what, where? What I attempted: having a cable go out of the wireless router into the ethernet jack in the wall, and then putting the one that seemed to be labeled "living room" (where it is) into the main thingie in the hub, and having the rest of the ones in the smart panel being going into the....rest of the hub thingies. But currently, no working ethernet out of the jacks. So, either mislabeled, or that's not the way to do it. Help?
meara, you might try checking things one step at a time. First make sure the router works by plugging directly into it. Then, after plugging it into the wall, go upstairs and try plugging a computer into the "living room" labeled jack and see if that works. And so on.
Your router and hub should both have LEDs that light up when ports are connected correctly.
Oh, the router definitely works--I'm on buffistas through the wireless, and the TiVo is hooked up through one of the other wired ports. Voila! Will try the other suggestions...
Yeah, bring the hub down and hook it up straight to the router, and see what that does. What you describe in general sounds like it should work. The only thing I`m unclear on is what you mean by the main thingie (jack?) on the hub. Do you mean something labeled as internet input to the hub? Because you probably don`t need to do that, your router is handling the internet distribution. It might just need to go to a regular thingie on the hub (from the marked living room). Pics might be helpful at this point. And yes, do look at the blinky lights and see what they tell you. Hee.
Ah, turns out I had plugged from the router into the ONE jack that is apparently broken. Useless! Of *course* the jack that is right where everything I want to be there is the somehow messed up jack. Sigh. Have an unsightly wire trailing across the room, in the meantime.
Next project, remembering what my TiVo Seaon Passes are, so I can program them into my new TiVo. I ...think I know what I watch? Mostly? Ooh, no wait, I just remembered another one.
Upcoming project: I want to make my printer wireless, since it's allll the way up in my office, two stories above my living room. PITA. (Of course, then anything I print would be up there, too, but...still)
It should be possible, maybe pretty easily, to repair the jack, but it should be done by a competent tech or electrician. Glad the rest is working, though. The making the printer wireless should be fairly simple.
I seem to recall that one of my OS X iterations had an iCal subscription for current movie releases. I can't find a decent one anymore. Anyone have a recomendation?
That one doesn't seem to have been updated recently. Or there are no new movies coming out in the next few weeks.
