Completely Illogical
No, I am not talking about Bill O'Reilly. Nor am I talking about Jack Thompson, who appearently got himself banned twice at Game Politics.
No, what I am talking about is my new router. I got it over the holiday break and use it mostly as a firewall and for my new Nintendo DS (which a Mario & Luigi review will be comming soon).
During initial setup at my college, it had problems with the internet. Considering the how the college sets up its service, I was frustrated but not suprised. After a call and a few days rangling with the darned thing, I got it working.
Then about a week ago, it stopped working. At the time, I was too tired (for other reasons) to deal with the problem, so I unplugged it. Then about a day later, I plugged it back in and it was fine. Confusing, but not that inconvienent.
Then a few days ago, it stopped working again. I rangled with it for a bit, then decided to unplug it and see if that would help. A few days later, it didn't. I went through essentially reseting the device and all the other things that I could. Then I decided just to give up for a while, hooked my internet straight to my computer, leaving the router plugged.
Then after going through some of the suggestions that the company puts up at their web site, I hooked the router back up to try them. Before I did anything, I tried to see if somehow I could access the Internet. Success.
Why does this happen? Randomly failing and succeeding. Nothing changes, but everything does.
There might be some philosophy in that, but mostly it just shows why computers are often called confusers.
No, what I am talking about is my new router. I got it over the holiday break and use it mostly as a firewall and for my new Nintendo DS (which a Mario & Luigi review will be comming soon).
During initial setup at my college, it had problems with the internet. Considering the how the college sets up its service, I was frustrated but not suprised. After a call and a few days rangling with the darned thing, I got it working.
Then about a week ago, it stopped working. At the time, I was too tired (for other reasons) to deal with the problem, so I unplugged it. Then about a day later, I plugged it back in and it was fine. Confusing, but not that inconvienent.
Then a few days ago, it stopped working again. I rangled with it for a bit, then decided to unplug it and see if that would help. A few days later, it didn't. I went through essentially reseting the device and all the other things that I could. Then I decided just to give up for a while, hooked my internet straight to my computer, leaving the router plugged.
Then after going through some of the suggestions that the company puts up at their web site, I hooked the router back up to try them. Before I did anything, I tried to see if somehow I could access the Internet. Success.
Why does this happen? Randomly failing and succeeding. Nothing changes, but everything does.
There might be some philosophy in that, but mostly it just shows why computers are often called confusers.
posted by SeanM at 7:59 PM
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