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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8550 on: August 19, 2017, 09:10:02 PM »
Fed the cat (Martha Gras) and drew a heavay chalk line around the bowl to keep the ants out.  Works like a charm.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8551 on: August 19, 2017, 09:26:51 PM »
Wow, never heard of that trick.

I did more unpacking. Found some bedsheets, three measuring cups, bowls and glasses, and a casserole dish. I almost have enough to move in. Just have to find the damn ethernet cable so I can get the internet up and running.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8552 on: August 20, 2017, 01:21:41 AM »
Buy a new cable. Will be cheaper than renting an extra place till you find it.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8553 on: August 20, 2017, 02:26:17 AM »
Not much. :yawn:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8554 on: August 20, 2017, 03:10:39 AM »
Hardly anything.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8555 on: August 20, 2017, 06:21:46 AM »
Went to the shops and the chemist. Came home and worked on Java homework. None of it works the way I want it to. :D
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8556 on: August 20, 2017, 10:24:56 AM »
Buy a new cable. Will be cheaper than renting an extra place till you find it.

 :P

It's a little more complicated because the only cable socket in the wall is in the dining room, so that's where I put the cable modem. The computer is in the master bedroom on the other side of the house, and it's a desktop box that doesn't do wireless. The ethernet cable needs to be at least 50 feet (which we have one of from when WolFish wired me up at the previous place. That's the lost one) or else I need to figure out how coax wiring works so I can put the modem somewhere else.

The house was wired for cable TV but the previous owner was elderly and might not even have had internet. There are four coaxial cable ends sticking up out of the master bedroom floor, but they're all male. The cable modem wire needs a female socket. In the dining room where the female wall outlet is, there's another cable with a male end sticking out of the floor, but it's attached to the wall in such a way that it couldn't be plugged into the female socket.

On top of that, when the cable modem is connected to the wall, the network appears on my phone, but after I log in, I get an infinite loading symbol if I try to connect to any websites. So I guess some further setup is needed even though it's not in the modem instructions, but I don't know if it means the wiring is wrong or if it needs something done from a computer.

I have no idea what I'm doing. I hate this stuff, and I'm not sure where to start so that I can minimize the amount of wrong equipment I buy because I have no idea what I'm doing. Going to try hooking up a laptop and then calling the cable support people. Turning the male end of a coax cable into a female seems like it would be a cheaper option than buying some of the equipment I've read about, like this for the master bedroom or this for somehow running internet over the electrical wires.

I have internet at the temp housing until Wednesday anyway.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8557 on: August 20, 2017, 02:03:53 PM »
Why not just buy a wireless adapter for the desktop computer?

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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8558 on: August 20, 2017, 05:54:35 PM »
That may be the simplest solution.

I didn't want to buy anything until I'd confirmed with the cable people that there wasn't an additional issue with the wiring to the house. Which it turns out there is. There's a tech coming out tomorrow.

I'll still need the wireless solution though. Actually I'm not sure if a wired solution might be faster/better performance. Ugh, more research.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8559 on: August 21, 2017, 11:53:31 PM »
Woke up and had coffee. Now reading this place.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8560 on: August 22, 2017, 06:45:07 AM »
Picked up SO from work and took him to an appt. Ran errands while he was there. Currently cooking our favourite meal for lunch.

  What is this favorite meal?  Any for me?  :puppy:
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8561 on: August 22, 2017, 07:28:14 AM »
Picked up SO from work and took him to an appt. Ran errands while he was there. Currently cooking our favourite meal for lunch.

  What is this favorite meal?  Any for me?  :puppy:
My food from the gods dish that I love so much. With the Italian sausage, roasted potatoes and peppers and cheese. Sooooo good. Now I'm craving.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8562 on: August 22, 2017, 08:24:18 AM »
That may be the simplest solution.

I didn't want to buy anything until I'd confirmed with the cable people that there wasn't an additional issue with the wiring to the house. Which it turns out there is. There's a tech coming out tomorrow.

I'll still need the wireless solution though. Actually I'm not sure if a wired solution might be faster/better performance. Ugh, more research.

Wired is normally always just a little bit faster but wireless is way more convenient.

If the cable box is just a standard modem, I'd get a router and just network everything. Some of the newer ones they ship out from Verizon are routers. 

In the last house I had the cable modem hooked into to a router upstairs...and a repeater downstairs to up the signal strength for online game playing, laptop surfing, tv streaming etc.

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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8563 on: August 22, 2017, 09:53:06 AM »
Yoga.
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Re: What have you done today? (Pt 2)
« Reply #8564 on: August 22, 2017, 10:19:53 AM »
Picked up SO from work and took him to an appt. Ran errands while he was there. Currently cooking our favourite meal for lunch.

  What is this favorite meal?  Any for me?  :puppy:
My food from the gods dish that I love so much. With the Italian sausage, roasted potatoes and peppers and cheese. Sooooo good. Now I'm craving.

  Any combination of cheese and roasted potatoes is a winner in my book!  :2thumbsup:
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