23 May 2014

Friday frustrations

I've been up since 5 a.m. trying to get a new DSL modem-router working. I ordered it from amazon.fr after the first one I ordered turned out to be incompatible with the French phone company Orange's DSL signal. I can't figure out what the problem with this one is. (Why, by the way, is the technology called DSL in American called ADSL in France?)

I'm as crabby as the white crab spider on this flower. Can you see it?

I had the new modem up and running earlier, but Walt and I both started having problems with our internet connection a couple of days ago. It would take forever, for example, for me to get my e-mails to download, especially on my Android tablet. Walt was having problems getting several different blogs to load on his desktop computer.

I guess I'll just go out with the dog and smell the acacia flowers.

So I set up our old DSL modem-router again, and it works fine. I've been trying to duplicate the old device's settings in the new device, but to no avail. The manufacturer's setup wizard is useless. I guess I'm just not intended to upgrade our home network at this point in time. Sometimes it's just better to give up and to go with what works, even if it's old and slower than you'd like. Thank goodness it works, by the way.

12 comments:

  1. An orange marking — or is it its eyes? — give it away.

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    1. Hard to tell — marking or eyes? — CHM.

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  3. I dunno why an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line is known as DSL in the US - It's known as ADSL most places, although it's probably that when ADSL was introduced the ISPs in the US fudged a way of not telling people their upload speed was going to be different to their download speed. Either that or it was decided that it would be confusing for some people to use a long word...

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    1. I'll go with the difficulty of using a long word.

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  4. Yes, thank heavens you older router is at least working. You'll figure it out, Ken, if anyone can-- Courage!

    Enjoying the stove?

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    1. I've got the modem-router going now. I had switched two settings by accident, and once I fixed that problem all was well. Or almost. It still doesn't run as fast as advertised.

      The stove? Great. Really enjoying it. I've been doing a lot of cooking because we went to Blois and bought a lot of food: a chicken, some artichokes and haricots cocos plats, and some chicken livers. For a couple of days now, I've been busy in the kitchen (mousse de foie de volailles, etc.). It's still constantly threatening to rain or actually raining outside. We are shut-ins, meteorologically (?) speaking. Oh, and I made Boston baked beans, using French dried haricots lingots — the beans you use to make cassoulet. Nous profitons du mauvais temps pour faire ce qu'on peut faire dans la cuisine et sur la terrasse...

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  5. Got frustrated looking for that spider that's on the right lower mid section, right? I'd much rather look for Waldo than try to figure out modems.

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  6. Ken

    The term DSL represents a smorgasbord of different technologies( XDSL for ADSL, SDSL, VDSL etc) based on a special line code or coding for high-bit rate digital subscriber line over a pair of copper.
    ADSL is used by and sold to the consumer industry by the different suppliers.
    It should work across the board because the data blade at the CO and the provider data centers must come either from Alcatel Lucent or their competitors and they follow the same "standard"
    It is asymmetric ( as compared to symmetrical used by the enterprise industry) because your upload and download bit rates are not the same for upstream and downstream transmission.

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  7. Okay - you bamboozeled (sp?) me with trying to id the white crab spider and that's pretty much gobbeldeguck (sp?) trying to explain the router/digiiiiital line business as well !!! I was happy to understand the great food you've been preparing - thank heavens!
    Mary in OR

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  8. Merci, The B. I understand better now.

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  9. Mary, Laughing Out Loud. Strange times right now.

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