Guess I’m losing touch…
Saturday, 31 August 2024 09:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekA couple days ago, a colleague told me to check my home internet plan and that apparently the ISP is doing some sort of promotion. We were paying a certain price, for unlimited data at 150M (whatever that means). The promotion now is for loyal customers, the baseline is 5 years of subscription (we've been subscribing since the internet started) and the internet speed would be upgraded to 600M (price and package remain unchanged). I guess it was a gut FOMO reaction, when I told my Mom she said to get it immediately.
That actually reminds me that we should start updating our utilities as the internet is under my Mom's name. But now after signing up for this upgrade, we are locked in for 2 years so oh well.
Anyway, we needed to upgrade our router to be able to support the 600M speed as well, so the ISP guy came over and replaced our router.
The issue I have now it: I don't know what I did before, that I was able to use my existing Apple AirPort Extreme as a Wi-Fi extender and as a connection point for my printer, so I was able to extend the internet a little further, and make my non-wireless printer into a wireless printer.
Either, since my last set up, there has been some firmware update to the AirPort Extreme, or something, but I am unable to get my AirPort connected to the new router network. In fact, after I reset the AirPort, and then somehow connect it wirelessly to the network, the AirPort would suddenly disappear. This makes it looks like the AirPort itself is out of order.
I'm stumped. But since we've also upgraded the printer a while ago to something that has some wireless function, I think I can safely just remove the AirPort altogether.
But the printer is a whole other can of worms LOL. The ink dries out so quickly, so now it can't print. But I need it to at least print its own data out, because, I need the default password in order to be able to connect to the printer wirelessly. (I've tried the age old 000000, no dice)
Why is technology now so complicated? I also don't see the difference of the 150M and the 600M. Maybe when I start watching videos or movies?
That actually reminds me that we should start updating our utilities as the internet is under my Mom's name. But now after signing up for this upgrade, we are locked in for 2 years so oh well.
Anyway, we needed to upgrade our router to be able to support the 600M speed as well, so the ISP guy came over and replaced our router.
The issue I have now it: I don't know what I did before, that I was able to use my existing Apple AirPort Extreme as a Wi-Fi extender and as a connection point for my printer, so I was able to extend the internet a little further, and make my non-wireless printer into a wireless printer.
Either, since my last set up, there has been some firmware update to the AirPort Extreme, or something, but I am unable to get my AirPort connected to the new router network. In fact, after I reset the AirPort, and then somehow connect it wirelessly to the network, the AirPort would suddenly disappear. This makes it looks like the AirPort itself is out of order.
I'm stumped. But since we've also upgraded the printer a while ago to something that has some wireless function, I think I can safely just remove the AirPort altogether.
But the printer is a whole other can of worms LOL. The ink dries out so quickly, so now it can't print. But I need it to at least print its own data out, because, I need the default password in order to be able to connect to the printer wirelessly. (I've tried the age old 000000, no dice)
Why is technology now so complicated? I also don't see the difference of the 150M and the 600M. Maybe when I start watching videos or movies?
