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[deckardcanine]

That poem I wrote last Wednesday? Big surprise: It wasn't the end of the ordeal.

My landlady had FiOS Internet installed. When I entered the connection password, it gave me strictly "local" access, which AFAICT is no Net access at all. (Signal strength was clearly not the issue.) When I disconnected and tried reconnecting, it wouldn't give me even that, claiming incompatible adapters. After maybe an hour of fruitless calling around, including to the installer, I found that the problem had corrected itself somehow. Alas, the pattern resumes every time I boot up or get the PC out of sleep mode.

Thankfully, my landlady trusts me enough to let me use her PC (two floors up). I opened the Verizon In-Home Agent. It offered two methods of enabling access on other PCs, the recommended one being a transfer of settings via USB. Neither worked. Nor does any attempt at troubleshooting with IHA, on either PC. My mom, who's had FiOS at her house a while, tried in vain to help me on site.

Before I take a day off to correspond with Verizon personnel, do you techies have any recommendations? I've been thinking of getting a new PC soon anyway, but I don't want to find the same problem there.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

Argh, too technical for me, alas. I don't even have WiFi set up here, I just use a cable modem.

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

Well, my first impression is that the problem probably is with the adapter. It may indeed be "incompatible"... Or, if you're lucky, it just needs updated drivers. Let's hope it's just the drivers!