My Telephone providers are idiots

[aczlan]

+2 on this. JD this will also take the whole WiFi situation out of the hands of your provider Frontier and place control of your network in your hands. All of that for $45. Plus you get some gigabit ports to put your server computers on.

And a USB port to share a printer or a hard drive with everyone else on the network.

Aaron Z

 

[aczlan]

+2 on this. JD this will also take the whole WiFi situation out of the hands of your provider Frontier and place control of your network in your hands. All of that for $45. Plus you get some gigabit ports to put your server computers on.

And a USB port to share a printer or a hard drive with everyone else on the network.

Aaron Z

 

[dmccarty]

And a USB port to share a printer or a hard drive with everyone else on the network.

Aaron Z

Be careful with sharing a hard drive off the router USB port. A coworker did and there was/is a security bug in the router that allowed a hacker to read the drive....

There was confidential info on the drive and the coworker's identity was stolen...

Later,
Dan

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If your ISP is throttling your BW, it's probably not done at your houses wifi router.

 

[Mendonsy]

If your ISP is throttling your BW, it's probably not done at your houses wifi router.

I agree. They will be doing it with the server that connects you to the ISP.

 

[aczlan]

If your ISP is throttling your BW, it's probably not done at your houses wifi router.

True, but what he was describing sounds like a flakey wireless connection rather than throttling.

Be careful with sharing a hard drive off the router USB port. A coworker did and there was/is a security bug in the router that allowed a hacker to read the drive....
There was confidential info on the drive and the coworker's identity was stolen...

Good point.

Aaron Z

 

[JDgreen227]

I would recommend getting a separate device to handle your wireless needs. I have and highly recommend the Amazon.com: TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND V2 Wireless N300 Gigabit Router, 300Mbps, USB port for Storage, 3 Detachable Antennas, Speed Boost up to 450Mbps, WPS Button: Electronics
$45 on Amazon and its a excellent piece of equipment.
Then you can call Frontier, ask them how to set your router to "Bridge Mode" and you will be good to go.

Aaron Z

Appreciate your input and advice....but if I do call Frontier about ANYTHING, they put me on hold intentionally...last time was 48 minutes. I have spent so much time trying to correct their pi** poor service they KNOW I am going to bail when the contract I am stuck with is up...so their method of dealing with my issues is NOT to respond or do anything. That is what happens when a provider locks you into a contract.

 

[aczlan]

Appreciate your input and advice....but if I do call Frontier about ANYTHING, they put me on hold intentionally...last time was 48 minutes.

Post the modem make/model and we can probably round up a step by step guide for putting it into bridge mode.

Aaron Z

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If it's a combined modem / router, then yes, put it in bridge and use your own router.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Trying to get a trouble ticket into verizon isnt easy anymore. my phone is ringing constantly, wont stop. just had to unplug until they fix it.