Help! Stuck in an Apple user's house!

[Crackle]

Is there an outcome to this or did you just give up? if it didn't work, I'd do them a big favour and press the reset button on the router for at least 30 seconds. That way they'll know how you felt.

 

[jefmcg]

No, it's what you get for going near Crapple rubbish. Guaranteed to always be incompatible with the rest of the world.

Well, it's actually the other way around. The apple's are having no trouble connecting with 3rd party (Virgin) equipment, it's the Windows machine's that have a problem

Though I suspect it's not that they are Apple, it's all the household machines are apple, and all the outside machines are windows/android. I expect my macbook would have no better luck connecting than TC's.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is there an outcome to this or did you just give up? if it didn't work, I'd do them a big favour and press the reset button on the router for at least 30 seconds. That way they'll know how you felt.

Punch them in face, they'll definitely know then.

 

[MossCommuter]

Bored by page 2... Did anyone say turn or off and on yet?

 

[srw]

#firstworldproblems

Actually, I suspect @GrumpyGregry is there - except that the Virgin media box might simply be the cable modem, and the Airport thingy might be the router. Certainly when NTL cable internet was first rolled out they didn't supply a router, and we had to buy our own.

 

[swansonj]

Certainly when NTL cable internet was first rolled out they didn't supply a router, and we had to buy our own.

#firstworldproblems indeed ....

"I spilt quinoa all over my MacBook - fortunately it was only the Pro not the Air"

 

[Fnaar]

Will it still be a Virgin router if you've stuck something pointy in it?

 

[Elybazza61]

No, it's what you get for going near Crapple rubbish. Guaranteed to always be incompatible with the rest of the world.

Well they don't seem to have any issues here at work mixing mac minis,apple laptops,windows pc's,iphones,android phones etc to airport expresses.Of course I'm not hacked off at all that I'm typing this on some knackered old HP pc that is as slow as a slow thing.

And after years at home using first a second-hand i-book and the i-mac we have now the only issues we've had have been with routers,everything else has worked faultlessly;two android phones a Hp printer,Sony and Nikon cameras,lacie,wd and seagate hard drives.There's no way I'll go back to a windows pc now.

And yes I do like how they look as well but I'm no fanboi either and I actually use an Android phone although it's certainly not as intuative as my old i-phone.

 

[ufkacbln]

Will it still be a Virgin router if you've stuck something pointy in it?

I can't see why you are all faffing around, the answer is simple

It is a Virgin router , and merely protecting it's virtue from the unwelcome advances of a stranger!

 

[theclaud]

Is there an outcome to this or did you just give up? if it didn't work, I'd do them a big favour and press the reset button on the router for at least 30 seconds. That way they'll know how you felt.

Sorry - not been in a position to post. Poor @rich p will have been gnawing his fingers to the bone with the anticipation of it all, the ridiculous old lush. With a particular sequence of turning stuff off and on again, the connection via the cable to the router worked, although I still have not been able to log on to the router. I'm going to stay tethered to the desk this morning while I do some stuff that can't wait, and then have another crack at sorting the wireless later.

 

[JoeyB]

What are you all doing in my house?

 

[Crackle]

Sorry - not been in a position to post. Poor @rich p will have been gnawing his fingers to the bone with the anticipation of it all, the ridiculous old lush. With a particular sequence of turning stuff off and on again, the connection via the cable to the router worked, although I still have not been able to log on to the router. I'm going to stay tethered to the desk this morning while I do some stuff that can't wait, and then have another crack at sorting the wireless later.

Splendid, we can get back to cooker hoods until we need to discuss how to break into the router.

 

[ufkacbln]

Splendid, we can get back to cooker hoods until we need to discuss how to break into the router.

Only a Cad and Bounder would "break in"


A Virgin Router should be wooed and seduced gently.... try buying some flowers?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

#firstworldproblems

Actually, I suspect @GrumpyGregry is there - except that the Virgin media box might simply be the cable modem, and the Airport thingy might be the router. Certainly when NTL cable internet was first rolled out they didn't supply a router, and we had to buy our own.

I think he's onto something.

 

[JoeyB]

VM have long stopped dishing out standard modems though haven't they?

If this is an Apple household then like me they probably didnt want to lose the functionality of the Airport Extreme so daisy chained it in with the VM supplied Superhub router. You used to be able to put the VM router into modem only mode, but I don't think you can do this any more so I just switch off all routing services / wireless etc manually on the VM hub and allow the Airport to pick up this function. It warns of double NAT issues etc but so far I've not had a problem with this setup.