Linus' House of IT: 15 cents please - Page 9

Linus · 01-17-2014, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrea

Yes, it is on WiFi and yes, there is a password assigned by the internet provider. It is at least 15 characters long and has never been changed. Heck, I don't even know how to change it. I don't believe it has upper and lower case, or special characters.

If someone had changed the router password, how would I have been able to access the internet on my laptop and tablet? How would changing to No Proxy have allowed me internet access?

Thank you for the Proxy explanation. I don't think I need to be able to use a proxy but with NSA and such.....

The password I'm referring to is the administrator password, not the wifi one. I suspect that the router is at 192.168.1.1 and they usually have a default password. (something like admin/password) unless the ISP changed it.

And it's possible that someone changed it for their own purposes or accidentally selected the wrong option. If the admin password was never changed it's possible.

Oh.. and a proxy won't prevent the NSA from looking at your stuff. The only way to ensure that they don't see your stuff is to not surf the web or be online.

Andrea · 01-17-2014, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Linus

The password I'm referring to is the administrator password, not the wifi one. I suspect that the router is at 192.168.1.1 and they usually have a default password. (something like admin/password) unless the ISP changed it.

And it's possible that someone changed it for their own purposes or accidentally selected the wrong option. If the admin password was never changed it's possible.

Oh.. and a proxy won't prevent the NSA from looking at your stuff. The only way to ensure that they don't see your stuff is to not surf the web or be online.

No, I do not currently use an admin password. I will set one up though.

<waving to the NSA> Guess I will just continue not doing suspicious stuff. I mean, if I am not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to worry about. Right? /end sarcasm

Thanks again for the info, Linus. The check is in the mail.

Gemme · 01-25-2014, 06:09 AM

I know it's been mentioned before (not sure if it was here or not, though), but it would be nice to have more than a handful of hours between the 'your subscription is expiring' notice and the paypal pull.

I didn't get online last night and sometime between 7:30am yesterday and 6am this morning I got both the expriration notice and the notice of the paypal pull. It wasn't even 24 hours in between. It feels like we used to have more time before. Can that be adjusted?

Medusa · 01-25-2014, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

I know it's been mentioned before (not sure if it was here or not, though), but it would be nice to have more than a handful of hours between the 'your subscription is expiring' notice and the paypal pull.

I didn't get online last night and sometime between 7:30am yesterday and 6am this morning I got both the expriration notice and the notice of the paypal pull. It wasn't even 24 hours in between. It feels like we used to have more time before. Can that be adjusted?

Answered on "Good, Bad, Ugly" thread...

TruTexan · 01-30-2014, 06:09 PM

I have tried to get to chat from both home page buttons but cannot get it working with Google Chrome. It was working fine yesterday.
I am using Windows 7 pro and google chrome.
I"ve tried clearing out my cookies and cache, keep getting the same Error Message on the webpage that opens for chat on my home computer, as it opens a different window to chat on....here is what it says:

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to host7110.123flashchat.com

Linus · 01-30-2014, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TruTexan

I have tried to get to chat from both home page buttons but cannot get it working with Google Chrome. It was working fine yesterday.
I am using Windows 7 pro and google chrome.
I"ve tried clearing out my cookies and cache, keep getting the same Error Message on the webpage that opens for chat on my home computer, as it opens a different window to chat on....here is what it says:

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to host7110.123flashchat.com

It's not you. It's our chat provider. They appear to be down. Hopefully they will be back soon. Try in an hour or so.

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