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[Guest EXPAT]

Seriously??

That sucks!

22 episodes spread over a 36 week season means 14 weeks of reruns. I liked it back when shows did 36 episodes. But that was in the 50's. Long over.

[caeron]

You can download or stream all the Boardwalk Empire you want here:

http://eztv.it/shows/411/boardwalk-empire/

I appreciate the link, but I'd rather not download pirated content. There have been prosecutions/suits in the US by content owners, and I'd rather not take that risk. (may not be the same issues in europe, I don't know)

I did this once before for some show, I've forgotten which, and got a cease and desist letter. Given that Torrents have you uploading too, your liability could be considerable even for just a few episodes.

Frankly, I wish the movie/TV industry would catch up with Itunes and recognize that we'll pay reasonable prices for content. I'd pay .99 for a commercial free HD episode of a show I want to see. I won't pay the 3.99 that the current on-demand services are asking.

Hopefully, this will sort itself out over the next several years.

[BiBottomBoy]

How the hell did they find you in order to send you a cease and desist letter?

You don't use masked IPs? Hell, I don't even come to Male Escort Review from my genuine IP address.

Hell, if you don't want to download or install masking software Firefox will mask your IP for free if you simply click "Start Private Browsing."

[Lucky]

The news today reveals that of that $107 a month I was paying for cable tv, about $100 a year of it went to sports programming that I never watch. What I did watch was baseball, and to get Extra Innings, the channel that allows for the most games, I paid $189 a year separately.

The article comments on how more people are dropping cable tv in tight economic times. You'd think cable channels would be paying attention, but all they offered me was yet another bundle of channels that I wouldn't watch.

We have the roku box, but in order to connect it to our wi-fi,it needs the password. Well, we have tried every which way to enter the password, but it never takes. So, so far, no roku,.

[Guest FourAces]

We have the roku box, but in order to connect it to our wi-fi,it needs the password. Well, we have tried every which way to enter the password, but it never takes. So, so far, no roku,.

Lucky your Internet provider probably set up your Wifi and can help you reset the password. If not go to the routers makers homepage and search tech help to reset it. It should not be too difficult.

[Lucky]

Lucky your Internet provider probably set up your Wifi and can help you reset the password. If not go to the routers makers homepage and search tech help to reset it. It should not be too difficult.

Oh, how you kid me. I did contact Time Warner by chat. He dumped so many confusing instructions on me that I might as well have been trying to build a space craft to the moon. One thing that was clear was that he seemed to think I needed to change my password to my desktop, even though I was quite specific it was their router. I finally gave up.

So far the whole thing has been a mess. I did notice today at Costco that the Roku I got from Amazon at $89.99 was $84.00 there, AND included the HDMI cable that I had to buy separately.

So, since my Roku would not recognize my Time Warner router password, and since I don't want to pay $10 a month for the router, I went to Best Buy where the salesman sold me a Netgear Router that he said had extended range. Whether it was good enough I would not know until I tried it, but he said to hold off on the range extender until I found out. SO, I take it home, unbox it, and immediately see that it only has an ethernet cord to connect it to the modem. It has no part that was to be connected to the computer I wanted the router to send the signal to.

Well, my computer does not have an ethernet port, so the new router was worthless to me. I went up to Costco, which thankfully is not far, and looked at the computers they sell, none of which have an ethernet port. I did notice that they sell a router, just one, which also requires an ethernet port. It was $10 more than the Netgear one I bought. When I went to CNET to see the reviews on it, they weren't good.

So, FourAces, I went to the SMC site, reset the router as they ordered. Then, to enter a new password, I have to log into the router.

SMC provides my choice of 3 addresses to do so: How do I Login to the Router?

Open a new browser window and in the address bar type in 'http://192.168.2.1' or 'http://192.168.2.1:80' or 'http://192.168.2.1:88' and press enter.

You guessed it. Not one of those addresses worked for me. They do allow a default password, but that is only when you have not already chosen and entered a password.

So, so far I have nothing from my Roku and am looking at spending more.

[MsGuy]

Lucky, at some point in all matters technical it becomes more economical to call in a propeller head, throw money at him and tell him to fix it & call you when he's through.

Otherwise, the valium alone will bankrupt you. Consider also the aggravation of cooking your own meals when the BF flees to Atlanta.

[Guest hitoallusa]

If I were there I could fix it up for you very fast. It's hard to help for me without actually seeing it myself. I hope you are not so stressed out.

[Lucky]

If I were there I could fix it up for you very fast. It's hard to help for me without actually seeing it myself. I hope you are not so stressed out.

No, actually. I set it all aside and am reading a book- A Firing Offense, by David Ignatius, 1997.

But the bf is using his computer, not with the Time Warner wireless, nor with the SMC temporary password, which didn't work. He is using a neighbor's unsecured connection.

[lookin]

Lucky, assuming you can get things back to the way they were yesterday morning when your old router was working just fine, and assuming you have your network password, why not let Roku help you with the setup?

Here is a link to their setup guide, and here is a link to the page telling you that you have 90 days of free support. It seems they should be able to help you get your password to 'take'. It will not be the first time they've had to walk somebody through the setup process.

[Lucky]

Thanks, Lookin. it has actually gotten more complicated now. Since I have reset the router, it has no password other than the so-called default password that doesn't work. I am unable to log in and change it, since the 3 addresses provided me by SMC do not work.

I want to get rid of the Time Warner router anyway. The Netgear router I bought yesterday cost $80. The TW router costs $10- per month! I have probably already paid over $200 for it, yet don't even own it!

So, the plan is to get a router that does not require an ethernet port, enter a brand new password, see if Roku will accept that password, and, if so, then I am in business.

The David Ignatius book was one of those "couldn't put it down" kind. I stayed up to midnight to finish it. Even 15 years later it is timely.

[lookin]

Well, Lucky, my bosom friend, it pains me to see you nipple-deep in such technical quicksand. Each time I see you inching closer to placing the final piece in the puzzle, along comes a Help Desk Wallah who turns over your card table.

One trivial idea is to make sure you're not using the quote marks when you enter one of the three URL's for your router. And be sure to type the URL in your browser's address window, and not in a Google search box, for example.

I'm no tech guy but frankly I don't see how you're going to find a router without an ethernet connection. I always thought that's how they hooked up to your cable modem. That's what mine does anyway, and then it communicates with everything else wirelessly. Didn't you have an ethernet cable between your modem and your old router?

I admit, I'm getting out of my depth here, especially without knowing what various pieces of equipment are included in the Lucky Home Network, so the best I can do is offer you a few suggestions to, Inshallah, pull you out of the muck and send you on your way to some uplifting free home entertainment.

1. Plod along for another few days carting tech gear around the Desert and hope the right pieces end up at your house and talking to each other. A smidge of Hindi will come in handy if you want to get the most out of this experience.

2. As MsGuy has suggested, call in a pro. Just be sure to pick the right guy.

3. Consider accepting hitoallusa's kind offer to fix it up for you very fast. A first class plane ticket and a home-cooked meal might be all it takes. And the fact that he will not have to wonder where you are for a couple of days might be another valued enticement.

4. Forget about watching TV. You have recently learned the pleasure that comes from curling up with a good book and having no reason to put it down other than the fluttering of your eyelashes low down on your manly chest.

and, certainly last, and with empathy for those who feel the suggestion to be beyond the pale,

5. Consider a - shudder - Mac router. The one I use is called the Airport Express.

It connects to your modem with an ethernet cable, and it talks to everything else wirelessly. And, yes, it works with Windows. I checked out the Windows setup instructions and it looks like they're as simple as those for the Mac. You just plug it into a wall socket, copy the software onto your computer, open it, and answer some questions about how you want to use your network. When I first plugged it in and installed the software on my Mac, the computer found the Airport Express without any help from me. I considered it a thoughtful touch on Apple's part.

Apple makes stuff like this so easy, I continue to be surprised by folks who consider their products overpriced. If you put any value at all on the time you spend getting a Windows setup to do things, I think you'd find the Mac to be cheap, cheap, cheap.

PS: You can plug your stereo into the Airport Express and play any of your iTunes music through it. I burned all my CD's onto my laptop years ago, and listen to anything I want within a few seconds, even while posting on MER.

[Lucky]

In today's adventure,I returned to Best Buy, where I easily found my salesman. He then tried to sell me an ethernet card with a port on it. Well, I do remember buying ethernet cards for the computers. So he said I had all I wanted. ( Turns out I was wrong about not having an ethernet port. It just isn't yellow.) But what about the computer I want to send the signal to? The router box has nothing to attach to the computer so it can receive the signal. So, he sold me that, sent me home, telling me it wasn't rocket science, but if I couldn't hook it up, their Geek Squad would. The new router has no place to afix the cable cord, which the current router does.

So now I realize, or think I do, that when Time Warner brought its router here, that their box is a modem and router combo, or so it seems, because if I return this box to TW, I have no modem to connect the router to. Isn't the modem the thing that TW gives you to hook up to our computer so that you can get their internet? I remember a little brown box. Well, I don't have that anymore.

So, I called the geek Squad to come help. They said that I had to come into the store to hire them. I said, you mean a third trip to the store? If I have to do that, I will simply return everything we bought and hire someone else do do the job.

Lookin, I was not making the mistakes you mentioned. I did erase the marks and did not enter into the Google search bar. Nor did I choke the chickens. I appreciate all of the advice, but it does seem that I cannot get this ship righted.

Meantime, the neighbor whose unsecured router we snuck on last night wised up. It's now secured!

[Guest gcursor]

I hadn't really read this posting before but it is very interesting to see the technical quicksand that Lucky seems to be sinking in. I'm sure GEEK SQUAD will put you back on target. I had to make an appointment with them once and did it online via chat. I was SO depressed when I did it too! I thought to myself, "I am a computer geek and I have to CALL the Geek Squad to come look at something?" I was so upset. However a few hours I figured out the stupid mistake that I made and cancelled the appointment. All I could think to myself was, "Whew! That was a close one!"

In my case, the problem was that my pc wouldn't boot up at all. I later discovered that I had left on my external hard drives over night and when I booted my PC, the system halted because it couldnt handle the additional hard drives. Stupid mistake for sure but one I noted and will never make again. Typically I usually keep my external hard drives powered off and they are only used for archival storage (ALL of my iTunes purchases are kept on there and YES..there are a LOT of them over the years)

gcursor

[Lucky]

Lookin was kind enough to help me realize that I did indeed have an ethernet port. It just wasn't yellow. The Netgear cord is bright yellow and inserts into a bright yellow plug, so I thought these things were all color coordinated.

My wireless router from TW is also my modem, so if I unhook the router, I also unhook the modem, and then have no internet access. I first need to return the box to TW, get my modem back...no, I didn't say my mojo....and then start all over again.

My new router will have a password that Roku can recognize, and we will have better range too. All will end well!

[Guest FourAces]

Wow sounds like a lot of work oon your end. Still do not understand a few things like TW router should have worked. But looks like Lookin has you in the right direction. If not seems like one of us might need to make a house call

[Lucky]

The Lucky Promise:

All hookups will be successfully finished today! Well, not the man on man ones...

[Lucky]

Today's news: I went to TW to get a new modem and return the old box. It took about one minute!

I connected the new modem- no problem!

I connected the router- minor problems! But better signal to 2d computer,for sure.

Plus, my internet connection to the PC is now blazing fast compared to the old box.

Problem: Roku recognizes the new wireless, but still will not accept the password. This is odd because the new wireless did not ask me to establish a password. Even the default password does not work.

[Guest FourAces]

Today's news: I went to TW to get a new modem and return the old box. It took about one minute!

I connected the new modem- no problem!

I connected the router- minor problems! But better signal to 2d computer,for sure.

Plus, my internet connection to the PC is now blazing fast compared to the old box.

Problem: Roku recognizes the new wireless, but still will not accept the password. This is odd because the new wireless did not ask me to establish a password. Even the default password does not work.

Maybe in your ROKU info their is a password for the box maybe its not a router password its looking for. Try calling ROKU tech support if they list a number or contact them via email if not. So close yet so far... good luck.

[Lucky]

No, they actually do want the password to the router. I guess that they need it to access it. So I was smart enough, hehe, to figure out finally how to log-in to the router. I did so, and then changed the password. Did Roku then take the new one? Get real!

Somewhere back in an old router I must have created a password that I no longer remember. But, even if I did, changing it now should overrule any older one...or so you'd think.