Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Aug 2003 16:59 UTC
I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
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To the person who said that he had some experience with
computers, but that he had none configuring routers:
I thought I would share my own experiences with a Linksys
router I purchased to protect my home cable modem Internet
connection. First, I took out the power supply block and
plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the router itself.
Next, I plugged the cable from the cable modem into the
router. Then I plugged the computer into the router. I was
online with a firewall. That was it.
DSL users may need to enter PPOE data, but that is done
via a Web browser. You can also tweak other things
(again, via the Web based interface), but that isn't
needed.