Aargh. I seem to have completely fucked up my Internet somehow. It was being funky and the last time he was here the cable guy suggested I get a new wireless router. Guess mine was getting old. So I figured maybe now was the time. Hied mysel to target and got one. Got home, started to set it up. Seemed fine. Hooked it all up. Stuck my USB time-machine backup drive to it, tried to make that work. And then it all went to hell and now I can't even get it to give me Internet. Ugh!!

There is almost certainly something in the manual that tells you how to set the router back to default setting. Good chance it is a little recessed reset button you have to hold down for a certain number of seconds with a paper clip.

Yeah, that's what I did (though the first time I didn't hold it long enough and so was being driven batty because it SEEMED to restart, but then still showed up with the changed-not-factory network names!). It's late, so I'll have to figure out where I went wrong later (I think it was in the trying to set up the USB drive to be Time Machine, which is SUPPOSE to work/be easy, but I think screwed everything up). As long as it's working for the next week while I'm gone, otherwise I'd feel awful leaving my roommate with no internet!

I've got my iPhone 6 all set up with everything that was on my old 4s, except for one large video. I suspect I may have accidentally deleted it from the new one.

How can I get the video over to the new phone without starting over? I did upload the video from the old phone onto iCloud, and now I can see it in the "Shared" tab on Photos, but I want to download it onto the phone. Even just getting it so that I could use it as a source in the iMovie app would be great.

I think I found a workaround. I used the new iCloud program on my PC to grab the video, then I copied it into iTunes and included it in the Movies sync. Ideally, I wanted it to show up in the photos app, but at least I can edit it with iMovie.

Quisp: Actually, that didn't quite work. I could watch the video in the Videos app, but it still wasn't available in iMovie for editing. I copied it into the iMovie folder under the iCloud Drive on my PC, and that did the trick.

BTW, Jon, thanks for suggest pyTivo to me. I found a forum with a page that took me by the hand through the installation, and it's working like a charm! (I just have to remember to not let the computer go to sleep while I'm transferring.)

Great! I've got pyTivo on my Synology server now, and I couldn't be happier.

So I'm selling our old iPhone 4s's on eBay and someone has asked me, "Could you send me the MEID number so I can see if will work on my service?" This thread on eBay makes me nervous to give out this information. Anyone have any knowledge on this subject?

FAQ: Why should I not share my ESN / IMEI / MEID publicly? > Swappa

But then the answer just talks about not sharing your ESN number.

eta:

I really don't know about this stuff--I just googled. The link looks similar to what people on the eBay thread are saying.