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OK at present in my establishment there lives
1) elderly G3 indigo iMac very little space [ ? between 2 and 4 GB ] left on its hard drive - it was a 30GB one many moons ago.
2) C2D MacBook - of the 80GB generation maxed out with 2GB RAM my workhorse
3) HP Destop running XP home I think , being cleaned out by daughter #1
4) Fujitsu Siemans Laptop - XP Pro
Obviously items #3 and #4 are not being used - and frankly I am not enthusiastic about using them.
My problem is that the MacBook is wireless and the iMac [ wired] ain't big enough now [ it is 10.3.9 and won't really upgrade beyond that ]
NTL [ my ISP] are cable and we need a wired connection to set things up , and I'm not sure whether I need a PC to do the initial wired hook up and then use wireless from there . I know the original instructions from NTL were for PC
Soooooo the questions to throw out - do I attept to get to grips with an HP Desktop PC already in use <shudder>
Do I see about using the elderly iMac as the wired machine
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Do I get [ possibly next year ] a new Mac as a desktop machine ?
OK --- Macusers - over to you
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NTL, should be able to provide you with a way to get into your router using the iMac or the MacBook. I have all the router info stored as a bookmark on all my computers. All you need is your login and password to do any changes on it. I use exclusively wireless at home, and unless I need something that is router specific such as making changes, nothing is ever wired directly in. So contact your support at NTL and they should walk you through it, or give you a link to follow.
In IC XC,
Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Yeah - the problem will be to get someone with English as a first language  I wanted to query an entry on the last bill on Saturday and because I do not know the password I could not get any help Could not get it into the Support person that my husband could not phone them himself !! No matter how I put it [ and my elder daughter tried too ] he would not accept that my husband could not talk to him . This is the big problem with outsourcing help desks - these guys follow a script , give them something that's not in the file and they are thrown
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Well that is a major problem, but there is a solution. Every modem comes with a master reset, which brings everything back to default. Try that and then reset everything up. There is generally only one or two ways to login in and the same would be for the password. From there everything can be reset to the way you want it. But you will need NTL to let you know what the default password and login are, either that or find it in the router's manual.
In IC XC,
Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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