It seems to me that in Google Voice one could set up a phone number in one's own area, then add numbers to call as choices, and have a single local number to call all one's friends, 1 for Mary, 2 for Sue, 3 for Buffy, 4 for Giles, etc.
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DCJensen - Jun 23, 2010 5:12:30 am PDT #14217 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Pix - Jun 23, 2010 9:48:22 am PDT #14218 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Hivemind, please help me. I just helped my mom get a new Macbook and have set it all up and configured it to work just swimmingly, but her Airport Express is generating a single IP address that only one laptop (hers or mine) seems to be able to use at a time. How do I get it to generate a separate IP address for each laptop as it connects? I know how to access the IP addresses and could assign one manually if I knew what number to assign...? Or, better yet, is there a way to just get the AE to do it automatically?
ETA: The warning message I get is the standard "another device on your network is using your computer's IP address," but when I looked at the Airport, the address seems attached to it, not the laptops connecting to it.
Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2010 9:49:21 am PDT #14219 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Have you tried resetting the Airport Express?
Pix - Jun 23, 2010 9:56:49 am PDT #14220 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Yep, same problem. I'm going to unplug it for a few hours and will check it again when we get home later. If anyone has any insights in the meantime, I'd appreciate them!
le nubian - Jun 23, 2010 10:10:42 am PDT #14221 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
check to make sure you have updated the firmware, do a hard reset, and reinstall everything. those are my suggestions in that order.
Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2010 12:17:08 pm PDT #14222 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jessica - Jun 23, 2010 2:43:21 pm PDT #14223 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nice!
iTunes is warning me that this update may take over an hour. Probably not worth it since I'm planning to upgrade this month anyway, but I guess it's too late to stop now...
[Holy crap, over two hours and still going. Is restoring the media the last step?]
[Apparently not. Now it's re-optimizing all my photos. Oy.]
Pix - Jun 23, 2010 6:07:21 pm PDT #14224 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
I have determined that I know just enough to be dangerous with this stupid Airport Extreme (not express). I updated the firmware, which was indeed woefully outdated, but that didn't work. Then I checked to make sure it was configured correctly for the stupid DSL, which it seemed to be. Restarted again. Didn't work. I tried futzing around more to no avail. Now im getting this warning: "99.60.19.121 in use by 00:0d:93:fa:11, DHCP Server 192.168.0.1". Um. WTF?!?? Also argh.
Pix - Jun 23, 2010 6:11:19 pm PDT #14225 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
And now I'm back where I started. One computer can get one, but if I try to get the second laptop on I get a "Another device on the network is using your comouter's IP address (99.33.199.213)." Gah! I hate DSL. And my own incompetance.
Pix - Jun 23, 2010 6:13:04 pm PDT #14226 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Ftr, I tried to do a hard reset but since I currently have exactly one Ethernet cable and therefore can either connect my laptop and the airport OR the airport and the DSL modem but not both at the same time, I couldn't go through with it. Argh!!!