No, really, I mean it this time

What you don’t know is that 10 minutes after my last post about being connected wirelessly or wired (wiredly?) everything failed once again. (I think I’m suddenly getting a bald spot on my head.) Three hours later…

I finally called Gatweay’s Wireless Networking Support Team and got some professional help. It seems that by having my ISP (via the router) automatically assign me my DNS servers, the router was getting confused as to which packets to send to which computer. Hence the Gateway’s DNS lookup problems. So, all I had to do was to manually assign my DNS’ and presto, everything works just fine (even when I’m wired on the wireless laptop.) This of course was the only thing I didn’t try but thought would solve the problem as soon as “Clayton” (probably not his real name and most likely in India) told me what to do. (He liked the fact that I knew what he was talking about and had already tried about a dozen things he would have suggested to anyone else.) In fact, I’m so confident that this is now stable that I’m saying it’s stable again and not even worried about it.

Note to mom and dad: I hope you’ve found this at least interesting even though I’m sure you’ve not understood a word of something I’ve writtem yet again. 😉