Re: Re: Heres a good one!

Technically, it is a website - it just happens to be running on the
router itself, and is only accessible from the LAN side of the router,
what is generally referred to as 'Intranet'.

There is a reason Clark Howard refers to it as "Customer No-Service"...

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basilb4me wrote:
> Howard, that website isn't really a website at all. The settings on
> your modem are accessed by your browser - I find it weird, too.
> I don't understand how companies can have help staff who don't know
>; what's going on. I've made calls where I'VE been telling THEM that
>; what they're saying isn't right - and knowing how little I know that's
> really scary.
> Stacey
>
> --- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, "Howard"
> <esrman...> wrote:
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>>; Ok, I had no internet connection.
>>;
>>; I called AT&NotFree.
>;>
>;> The guy took mr through resetting THEIR modem.
&gt;>
&gt;> No internet connection.
>>;
>>; The guy tells me he can ping the connection,but cannot tell me if
>&gt;
> the modem is actually working.
>
>>; So I calls linksysy to reset the router.
>>
>> The guy takes me through the setup.
&gt;>
&gt;> He has me go top a website ,which my kid says is actually on the router.
>>
>> We do the setup there.
&gt;>
&gt;> He says since there was a catagory on that site that had all zero`s
&gt;>
> in it that it wasn`t coming out of ther modem,that the modem`s junk.
&gt;
>>; No internet connection.
>>;
>>; REM:I have so far,talked to 2 GUYS.
&gt;>
&gt;> So I calls back AT&NotFree to see if they`ll send me a new router.
>>
>> A very nice LADY answers.
>>
>> She pings the connection and says there`s nothing wrong with your modem.
&gt;>
&gt;> She has me go to that inner website and change a few
>>
> settings.Notice:AT&amp;T has me on a linksysy inner website changing settings.
>
>>; She does NOT work for linksys!
>>
>> The connection is now WORKING!
>>
>> I told her she knows more than the people that work for linksys and
>>
> I`m in love and will she marry me?LOL!
>

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Thanks for the clarification Norm. I think of websites as the ones
&quot;out there"; (WAN?). (I don't know why, but it creeps me out thinking
that my router is hosting (?) a website...)

--- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, Norm Higgs
&lt;norm...> wrote:
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> Technically, it is a website

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