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My hub died.
May. 14th, 2003 03:01 amI always like to think I know things. For example, I thought the switch I owned was a router. No, it's a hub. All my fellow geeks my laugh at me and point.
For you non-geeks: a hub is slightly more than splitter for ethernet cables. When you use one and have three computers, you need three separate IP addresses for each. This has been costing me $7 a month for the two extra IP addresses.
A router, on the other hand, creates a substation of masquerading IP addresses (submasks, they're called) that each computer attached to it may use. I knew that's what a router did, but I didn't realize I didn't own one.
The cable modem level one tech was right as rain when he diagnosed that. I threw a temper tantrum. Then my coworker Dave told me to run a couple other tests to make sure it wasn't the wires.
The wires work fine. The hub is dead. So it's time to buy a router. I'm heading off to a local geeking store in the morning. I'm thinking Linksys, even though I just burned out a Linksys (hey, it was good to me for two years). Anyone have advice on brands or features I should check out?
-or mebbe Netgear, Dante
By the way: I just blew several hours playing with the video on demand now that it's working. They shoved a bunch of Flash short subjects in there. Kinda weird to see "Behind the Music that Sucks" and "Queer Duck" on a television. More later...
For you non-geeks: a hub is slightly more than splitter for ethernet cables. When you use one and have three computers, you need three separate IP addresses for each. This has been costing me $7 a month for the two extra IP addresses.
A router, on the other hand, creates a substation of masquerading IP addresses (submasks, they're called) that each computer attached to it may use. I knew that's what a router did, but I didn't realize I didn't own one.
The cable modem level one tech was right as rain when he diagnosed that. I threw a temper tantrum. Then my coworker Dave told me to run a couple other tests to make sure it wasn't the wires.
The wires work fine. The hub is dead. So it's time to buy a router. I'm heading off to a local geeking store in the morning. I'm thinking Linksys, even though I just burned out a Linksys (hey, it was good to me for two years). Anyone have advice on brands or features I should check out?
-or mebbe Netgear, Dante
By the way: I just blew several hours playing with the video on demand now that it's working. They shoved a bunch of Flash short subjects in there. Kinda weird to see "Behind the Music that Sucks" and "Queer Duck" on a television. More later...
