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Good Morning Matt

 

Good Morning

 

You to Johnboy

 

Good Morning Tate

 

Happy belated new year everyone!

 

Mornin' folks. Router lost connection 8 times yesterday. Called CS no help, transferred to tier 1 tech no help so he's reporting it to engineers. Will get a reply in a week to 10 days. wtf am I supposed to do for internet til then??? Will my wife snap 1st and kill me, or vice versa?
Working ok so far today.

 

This from a cable company?

 

I'm outside Bumfuct KS, no cable lol. Internet is wireless thru a cell tower 2 miles away.

 

Morning Maner and crew!

 

So you’re using a hotspot then?

 

No, the router is currently working. It communicates with the tower. It is a Netgear Orbi.

 

Your modem or hotspot connects to the tower. Your router is what you connect your devices to. Only ones I’ve had any luck with lasting have been Apple routers. Every Netgear I’ve had has crapped out a year or so in. Got tired of buying them. So far I’ve only had 2 Apple routers in 11 years. If the router is from your provider take it up there and swap it out for another one. Be your quickest fix.

 

Yes, modem or hotspot is built into the router. Teck said I can't take it back to the store, must go thru Netgear warranty if the engineers deem it defective. Umm no, not gonna happen. Might be time to change ISPs. Or, maybe a modem and separate Apple router? hmmm

 

Instead of a pellet pooper maybe we should rename them Compressed Stick Burner. Then people can stop saying it ain't a real smoker.

 

Apple quit making their routers so lost hope there. I hadn’t seen one of those Netgears with all that built together. Course we don’t use cellular here. We’s got that fancy cable internets out in these boondocks. Along with AT&T dsl and in some parts fiber. We’re too far out for fiber though.


Mine told me I couldn’t take it back either. I damn sure showed up with it and got me a new modem though. Lol


If I’m paying you’re fixing it now.

 

People call a goose a duck too. Still doesn’t make it right.

 

What's the company called?

It's highly possible they have a custom Firmware running on it. It sounds like you have home based cellular internet. Do you have a data cap each month or anything like that? Sometimes moving where it is in the house can help things out some.