Back? :O

After some extreme amounts of hassle I now have a new modem that sorta works. Sadly it's even worse than my old one. I get very pissed off when ISPs use shoddy hardware. After all, I'm paying them to provide me with all the equipment needed to get online (bar the computer itself). They shouldn't be able to get away with using such poor products that I then have to use other equipment of my own just to make it work!

See the problem is, that the modem fails epicly at providing a wireless signal. Epicly. Normally I'd use my wireless repeater to boost the signal round the house but I can't, because the modem errors like hell even at point blank range, rendering its wireless functions useless. So, in the end, I had to disable the wireless on the modem. then take my repeater and reconfigure it to act as an access point instead. Plug the access point into the modem with a frigging wire!!! Just so that it can take over the modem's job of supplying wireless to the house.

All that and it's still a little jittery. :(