Macs, Chatrooms, Routers, And Fathers
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:09 am
As you guys may or may not know, I have a very stubborn and obnoxious dad who firmly believes he knows whats up with computers and insists that any problems I have with internet connections are totally my Mac's fault.
Possible? Sure. Likely. No. Here's why:
I can't access Pipeline (my schools site for accessing grades/class schedules/other important things such as transferal manuscripts), Chat rooms, and URI's transfer section (all of these things I am assuming I am firewalled out of) but if I bring my mac to my friends house, my girlfriends, or even to school itself, there's never any problems. I get right in. So for a while I was convinced it was his Norton, but I know now, without a doubt its his Router. He argues that it must be my computer not co-operating with his router and therefore its not his fault, but this is preposterous because my Wii also does not connect online for one-one-one play from home but will anywhere else. I've brought this issue up with HM but now that I know the key problems, I'm addressing here for anyone, because any help is good help.
So here's the real problem: I'm trying to transfer into a major university and I can't seem to ever be able to access any of my information for the online application from home and it's getting old asking my girlfriend to constantly login for me. I know I'm being firewalled out but I can't prove it or get around it. I don't know how to fight him anymore about this, because he's so stubborn and persistent that I can't keep up anymore!
The Router is a Motorola SBG900 Wireless SURFboard, (Gateway). I've read online reviews a week ago when I discovered it was indeed the router giving me trouble and i found one site with 12 reviews. Five were bad.
The seven good reviews sounded like this:
"Oh wow, this is great. It looks really good on my shelf, its easy to hook up, and I have no problems anymore! YAY FIREWALLS!"
the bad reviews read like so:
"This is a TERRIBLE router for any novice, I spent half my day de-firewalling everything from my Tivo to all my kids Game systems. I've never had router that gave me more trouble for such small things. (Insert technical jargon which I cannot comprehend nor summarize)."
Needless to say, the bad reviews seemed more genuine. I need a way to get around this and I can't find any. The IT guy at school told me to jack in directly with a cord and see if that helped, but I'm so new to Mac-world I have NO IDEA how to do so, and I'm assuming its the same as any other laptop, but I don't wanna make a mistake and screw up! Anyways, Any help at all will be much appreciated! THANK YOU AHEAD OF TIME!!
Possible? Sure. Likely. No. Here's why:
I can't access Pipeline (my schools site for accessing grades/class schedules/other important things such as transferal manuscripts), Chat rooms, and URI's transfer section (all of these things I am assuming I am firewalled out of) but if I bring my mac to my friends house, my girlfriends, or even to school itself, there's never any problems. I get right in. So for a while I was convinced it was his Norton, but I know now, without a doubt its his Router. He argues that it must be my computer not co-operating with his router and therefore its not his fault, but this is preposterous because my Wii also does not connect online for one-one-one play from home but will anywhere else. I've brought this issue up with HM but now that I know the key problems, I'm addressing here for anyone, because any help is good help.
So here's the real problem: I'm trying to transfer into a major university and I can't seem to ever be able to access any of my information for the online application from home and it's getting old asking my girlfriend to constantly login for me. I know I'm being firewalled out but I can't prove it or get around it. I don't know how to fight him anymore about this, because he's so stubborn and persistent that I can't keep up anymore!
The Router is a Motorola SBG900 Wireless SURFboard, (Gateway). I've read online reviews a week ago when I discovered it was indeed the router giving me trouble and i found one site with 12 reviews. Five were bad.
The seven good reviews sounded like this:
"Oh wow, this is great. It looks really good on my shelf, its easy to hook up, and I have no problems anymore! YAY FIREWALLS!"
the bad reviews read like so:
"This is a TERRIBLE router for any novice, I spent half my day de-firewalling everything from my Tivo to all my kids Game systems. I've never had router that gave me more trouble for such small things. (Insert technical jargon which I cannot comprehend nor summarize)."
Needless to say, the bad reviews seemed more genuine. I need a way to get around this and I can't find any. The IT guy at school told me to jack in directly with a cord and see if that helped, but I'm so new to Mac-world I have NO IDEA how to do so, and I'm assuming its the same as any other laptop, but I don't wanna make a mistake and screw up! Anyways, Any help at all will be much appreciated! THANK YOU AHEAD OF TIME!!