Oregon St., Wireless and Meadowbrook Park

[pollaczek]

I'm sitting here by my lonesome in my one week old house on E. Oregon St. in Urbana, IL, Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits (and Some That Someday Will Be) playing on this old bookshelf system, a 2-disc dollar purchase from serious early Saturday garage sale shopping- pathetic, I know, with me starting up again so soon and all, although I justify it by

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[babaluma]

Hey buddy. Welcome back to LJ. Hope you keep updating.

Most wireless routers are pretty much plug and play these days. I've never used a 2wire router, but the name doesn't show up in the menu bar? You shouldn't have to move it around to get a good signal, unless you are in the Chard House.

[pollaczek]

Thanks- lately, I've actually had news to update!

I thought that most wireless routers are plug and play, which is why this one is so infuriating. In fact, not only does the box itself indicate the solid green light for ethernet, it does so for "wireless" as well. Also, in my network preferences, the 2WIRE box is detected and the airport icon in the upper right hand corner of the desktop is solid. So, the airport card has connected to the router, the box is indicating the same, and yet there is no signal level indicated from the box to the software. I even tried moving the box to the dining room, as I thought that perhaps the walls were causing interference, but this too to no avail. Is it conceivable that the box would be detected but wouldn't work with OSX, or if it detects it I can presume it should work with Mac systems as well?

By the way, I've been meaning to let you know that the new browse feature looks great. Now I can finally locate all those zither solos by Kitty Berger again!

[pryomoax]

Hey, nice to see you are active one again. These lonesome days/nights are bringing you back. I know how it is, I hardly get time to update these days.

It's hard to say what's wrong with your wireless set up. Don't been fooled into thing PnP is that simple. I spend over a month trying to figure out a connection in my and Ada's place. It turns out, for me at least, the Dlink and Linksys respective modem and router were incompatible. I must have called tech-support-India at least five times to try and sort it out.

Happy bird wathcing my ornithologist friend.