I could cut across this field, but it hits pretty close to home

[minkhollow]

The good news: I have a new mattress, and it is made of awesome.
The... news: We have a wireless router! I got it working before dinner, and came back to find it had crapped out. So I unplugged it and the modem and restarted the computers (after plugging those back in), and it said it was Internet-ing, but it wasn't really.
I am currently plugged in the old-fashioned way, and as such am not expecting the router to route. Still, any advice from the tech crowd would be appreciated. (I think it might be the phone; the land line cuts out the Internet when you pick up or hang up, and we got a call toward the end of dinner.)

Comments

[noahphex.livejournal.com]

The phone shouldn't interfere with the modem. If it is there's a filter missing on the line somewhere (you have DSL I assume?).

If there is no internet access check to see if you can access the router. They all have web interfaces. Usually by default it'll be something like http://192.168.0.1 or such. The documentation should say. If you can get to it you can check the status page and see if it has an IP address from the cable/DSL modem.

Barring that, the best bet would be to contact the router manufacturer. They're much better equipped at troubleshooting problems than one of us, likely.

[oddsocks.livejournal.com]

This isn't exactly expert technological advice, this is just collective wisdom from everyone I know who's ever used a wireless router: they suck. One of my rooommates tried to go wireless this year (I and other roommate just used wires) and she had to ask us to restart the thing one or twice every day because it had stopped working. My only advice regarding the use of wireless anything would be don't.

But in the case that American wireless stuff isn't as crappy as Canadian, good luck getting it working!