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Sep. 24th, 2010 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioIt should not be this hard for me to break into my own wireless network. Hrmpf.
Once upon a time we decided to go the "authorized MAC addresses" route instead of the "shared password" route or the "leaking open wireless all over the street" route. I no longer remember what I had to do to add the Roku last winter, but it was pretty straightforward. I strongly suspect that it involved a link like "add MAC address" on the router's wireless-settings page. Now I have a new wireless device and want to add it.
Problem the first: the new device doesn't have an obvious way to cough up a MAC address. Problem the second (and this makes the first irrelevant, at least temporarily): the router interface for managing MAC addresses seems to be hosed. I can't even find a way to just turn the MAC filtering off (which would allow the new device to join the network, at which point the router would tell me its MAC address and I could theoretically add it and turn the security back on). The router reports that this filtering is enabled but on the configuration page the check-box is unchecked; checking it does not then give me access to the list to manage. So I guess I've reached the wrong part of the configuration, despite this being the only plausible part I've found so far.
Google was no help, at least in a first round. Verizon's tech support (they supplied the router) claims that my only option is to reset to factory defaults and start over. Since I don't now remember everything we changed from factory defaults, I don't know how big a task this is. There is an interface to save and restore a configuration file, which I thought might give me something to poke around in, but "save" does not mean "save somewhere where a mere administrator can actually see its contents".
Leaking open wireless all over the street is looking better and better to me. If I can figure out how to turn the MAC filtering off I may well just leave it off. Meanwhile, I will take the Kindle I received as a birthday present to a coffee shop to register it.
Once upon a time we decided to go the "authorized MAC addresses" route instead of the "shared password" route or the "leaking open wireless all over the street" route. I no longer remember what I had to do to add the Roku last winter, but it was pretty straightforward. I strongly suspect that it involved a link like "add MAC address" on the router's wireless-settings page. Now I have a new wireless device and want to add it.
Problem the first: the new device doesn't have an obvious way to cough up a MAC address. Problem the second (and this makes the first irrelevant, at least temporarily): the router interface for managing MAC addresses seems to be hosed. I can't even find a way to just turn the MAC filtering off (which would allow the new device to join the network, at which point the router would tell me its MAC address and I could theoretically add it and turn the security back on). The router reports that this filtering is enabled but on the configuration page the check-box is unchecked; checking it does not then give me access to the list to manage. So I guess I've reached the wrong part of the configuration, despite this being the only plausible part I've found so far.
Google was no help, at least in a first round. Verizon's tech support (they supplied the router) claims that my only option is to reset to factory defaults and start over. Since I don't now remember everything we changed from factory defaults, I don't know how big a task this is. There is an interface to save and restore a configuration file, which I thought might give me something to poke around in, but "save" does not mean "save somewhere where a mere administrator can actually see its contents".
Leaking open wireless all over the street is looking better and better to me. If I can figure out how to turn the MAC filtering off I may well just leave it off. Meanwhile, I will take the Kindle I received as a birthday present to a coffee shop to register it.
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Date: 2010-09-24 01:43 pm (UTC)Really, though, I was wondering about the Kindle. I'm curious as to how well it works with your eyesight. Is digital ink technology that good?
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Date: 2010-09-24 09:10 pm (UTC)It looks like the Kindle will work well with the font bumped up a notch or two from the default. But aside from the user guide and dictionary it came with, I can't really explore until I can register it. Which, for reasons unknown to me, did not work from an open wireless point near work today (claimed it couldn't connect, but someone standing next to me could with a phone). So I really have to fix my home network this weekend...
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Date: 2010-09-24 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-24 10:32 pm (UTC)So I have a bit of a bootstrapping problem; I don't have any Kindle-formatted documents to move across the wire yet, and can't get them until the device knows who I am.
I rebuilt the router configuration and MAC filtering is now gone, and now the Kindle can see the network. (Which uncovered a different problem in registering the device that tech support will be fixing for me, they say... something about a bad serial number.)
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