Never ask the cable company how to do anything. The answers vary so much, depending on who answers their calls, that I would be hard pressed to believe they all work for the same company.
I spent most of the morning treading through the automated calling systems, trying to find out the best way to get my new computer on the Internet. My old one was a laptop that hooked into the wireless router I installed last week, but the laptop gave up its ghost the other day and now I have a desk top.
After winding through the maze of automated questions several times and going to the local office, I was given three solutions. Each, according to the person I spoke with, the only solution possible with this cable company and our set up. Obviously at least two of them were wrong.
The answer came in the form of a nice young man attending Milliken University here. He too was in line at the local place. He suggested we simply run another ethernet line from the router box to my computer. It meant drilling a larger hole in the corner of one bedroom and stapling the line across the basement ceiling, but once connected, it worked perfectly!
Last night I slept in my own new bed, in my own new room with my own new computer resting comfortably nearby. Throw in my dog, Chauncey who joined me, and we are good to go.
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