Topic: Dear Scientific Atlanta, Linksys, and Microsoft.

[Pugnate]

Fuck all of you.

[Xessive]

What happened with your Linksys?

[Cobra951]

Although this thread is a year old, I'm going to guess Pug's problem is along those lines.

[Pugnate]

I just lose connection twice a day without reason. Then I have to restart my router and it can take a long while. Often I end up having to restart, which means I have to lose momentum for the work I am doing.

[W7RE]

I share my net connection with someone who's addicted to torrents (movies and Tv shows mostly). 2 terabytes and still going strong! I just wish it didn't make every game lag to hell. I've even tried sneaking in and changing some uTorrent settings to limit bandwidth, but it doesn't help. 5K per second DL speed, same on upload, and I get like 900ms ping.

[gpw11]

Yeah,I don't know what the hell is up with it, but ever since installing Windows 7 my PC and router seem to forget each other.  It's all good until I shut the PC down, but if it's down for a few hours and I turn it back on, I get a "limited" connection every time until I pull the power on the router and restart it. Weird.

[Pugnate]

It happens a few times a day for now reason. It just happened just now. I was posting something and the page wouldn't display. Meanwhile all the statuses showed I was connected. I restarted my router and everything was fine.

It can get really frustrating when I lose actual work....

[Schlotzky5]

I don't get what the deal is with networking. I mean, a decade ago when all this stuff was new it was 'cute' when the solution to a router problem was to unplug it and plug it in again. Now, that's in the fucking manual. I feel like computers have gotten better and better in terms of stability and accessibility, but networking is still a crapshoot.

[Cobra951]

Yeah, me too.  That shit should me mature enough now to just fucking work, or at least tell you specifically why it doesn't.  You hook up 2 PCs to the same router, they should automatically see each other's public areas, without the need to set up jack shit, or exposing those areas to anonymous outsiders.  It should just work.

[Quemaqua]

Absolutely.  Same goes for printers.  Why the fuck can't they build one that isn't a pile of crap?

[gpw11]

I feel printers have gotten better, or at least they're better than they were when I bought my first one.  Setting up a network printer though?  Fuck me.

[Pugnate]

I don't get what the deal is with networking. I mean, a decade ago when all this stuff was new it was 'cute' when the solution to a router problem was to unplug it and plug it in again. Now, that's in the fucking manual. I feel like computers have gotten better and better in terms of stability and accessibility, but networking is still a crapshoot.

hahahaha

Yea the same thought has crossed my mind as well. It should have reached maturity by now.

Yeah, me too.  That shit should me mature enough now to just fucking work, or at least tell you specifically why it doesn't.  You hook up 2 PCs to the same router, they should automatically see each other's public areas, without the need to set up jack shit, or exposing those areas to anonymous outsiders.  It should just work.

It used to be a lot worse for me till I installed network magic. It still isn't brilliant, but network magic is pretty good at getting computers to see each other without having you get on your knees.

But hearing you guys talk about printers is a bit of a relief.

I had started to think I was an idiot (though that's probably still true), but getting a printer installed on a network?

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

My brother brought his laptop over and he was filling out my dad's Canadian immigration form. He wanted to print, and it is the sort of thing you do from the Canadian government's website, and can't save the stupid document.

While my printer was set as shared, we just could NOT get it to work.

But I knew where the shit was headed. After dealing for years with Microsoft's P.O.S. OS, I knew that the best thing to do was to detach the printer from my machine and wire it up to his laptop, and save myself hours of aggrivation. Thank god the printer didn't ask him to restart the computer... those immigration forms take 45 minutes a piece.

GPW is correct that printer detection has improved massively. My last HP printer would often require my computer to restart, and would just not print otherwise. This current gen. HP printer is significantly better in that regard, though it too requires the occasional restart.

[gpw11]

I don't know why they can't figure out network printing, it's fucking retarded. I have a PC in my room and a laptop.  The Laptop is on Vista and the PC is currently on Windows 7, previously XP. I have a printer, but it's in a box downstairs (unopened) because I haven't pulled my large desk out of storage and probably won't until I move. As such, I've been networking to another printer in the house.  This used to be hooked up to a PC running XP, now a laptop running XP.  Get this.

Previously:

-My PC running XP could connect to the printer PC, also running XP
-My Vista laptop could not for some reason that wasn't worth solving.

So, the printer PC died and was replaced with a laptop.  I upgraded to 7 about the same time.  Now:

-My PC running Win. 7 can't connect to the printer laptop running XP.  It sees the printer, it installs drivers for it and installs it, it just can't connect come print time or get any status reports from it.  I'm not the only one having this problem.  The common work around is to trick 7 into thinking it's a physically connected printer, but this doesn't work all the time and doesn't work for me at all.

-My Vista laptop now connects to the printer laptop without a problem and can print.

WHAT THE FUCK?

[Xessive]

Weird..

I just print to PDF or XPS now from whatever PC I'm using then put the documents on to a USB stick and print the hardcopy from the printer PC. It helps with situations where you're printing from a website and can't save the doc or something. Which I ahd to do with the Canadian gov't website as well!