RobertHively wrote:Bout to head to second, and final, round of going to the dentist. Getting a second filling. :(
Has anybody heard from Frankie T? Haven't seen him post in a while, hope he's doing ok.
Here I'm is!
MACS got the story from me a few days ago, before the problem got temporarily fixed.
I was changing cable boxes out at local Xfinity/Comcast shpo and mentioned that my internet has been slow forever. The guy who is like a genius looked up the account, tells me my router/modem is old...I say it's two years old!...he thinks that proves his point.
He says my current one is only 800 mbps or whatever and my service has been boosted to 1000 mbps so iff'n I swap my "old" one for the brand new(ly refurbished) one that looks exactly the same I should see much better results even with my old laptop.
Plug in the new modem, everything in the house works...except after 3 days of no problems my laptop suddenly can't connect to server. Several hours on the phone with CS, they give up, tell me it's probably my laptop.
I like the old girl, I don't do much on it but it's got a yuuuge screen and stuff, so even though I should replace it, I take it to the kid at the local shpo, who is also like a genius.
$100 later he says it goes on line no prob at the shpo, cleaned out some malware and stuff, but I need to get Comast to fix it on their end. Also says will probably work with some short money thing plugged into the side to get wifi but to try Xfinity first.
Several more hours on the phone (Filipinos are so nice) they give up, decide they will send a technician the next day. Nice guy. Spends 3 hours here. He's maybe like uh idiot, but a nice guy.
Call my friend Rick...MACS met him a few years ago... he's really an actual genius. Tries everything. Gets the plug in thingy, it doesn't work. So he said let's plug it directly into the router/modem thing with an ethernet cable...it works.
I hate the location so looks like I'll be buying a new laptop soon.
Once I figure out the answer, I'll let you know what I learned from all this.