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Is it fixed now? Dammit!
Written by Arnan on February 7, 2010 – 6:03 pmToday, our modem signal again crapped it’s pants.
And i’ve had enough, so i went down there to replace the modem and some cables.
Turns out the spare modem i “borrowed” from our previous ISP doesn’t work with this one. It gets the signal and stuff right but doesn’t actually connect. I bet they locked the Mac address or something. Anyway, without a spoofing option to try that out i moved back to the original modem.
Next i swapped out all cabling. Some were a bit knackered, not sure how that happened. And the Ethernet cable promptly was stuck in it’s port. I had to pull hard to get it loose and in that process break the ethernet port on the router. Luckily no contacts were shorted just the locking clip broke off. So i can just use another port on the modem/router, it’s not mine so no need to replace it.
Let’s see how this works, all coax cabling is now replaced, new ethernet from the modem to the Airport… The modem shows a better signal/noise ratio. But i’m not sure if that was the problem. We’ll see.
Tags: broken, cables, internet, isp, modemScams, lies and complete chaos!
Written by Arnan on July 11, 2008 – 3:17 amSo i took a good look behind my iMac today and under my desk. yup i was at it again, adding yet another cable to the pile.
And i remembered seeing an image on the Apple website picturing a Dell computer and the new iMac. How clean the iMac looked compared to the Dell with cables and stuff running around.
And i must say… It’s a lie! I have even more cables than the Dell in their image.
Apple’s vision of an iMac:
And here is the sad truth! Ofcourse, not everything is from the mac. But 80% of what you see here is either connecting to the mac, powering peripherals to the mac or otherwise involved for that iMac. It’s insane!
Behind the iMac it’s complete mayhem, headphone cable, sound cords, multiple USB and Firewire cables, ethernet, power cords…
Below the table is mostly the lengthy pieces hanging down, a whole lot of audio cable coming from the sound card (the LED box in the other image) and a bunch of power cables. Going to various devices in this area.
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