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Yeah, I think it’s a little insane–but very cool.
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Heh. Yes, it sounds like the writer is auditioning for a standup job, but it’s funny stuff.
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I would be a lousy vegetarian. I’m drooling just reading this article.
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Reminding self to get an inverter and find out how to rig this off the battery of my wife’s Highlander Hybrid.
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Larry, the funkmaster at Funky16Corners and Iron Leg, is sick with unspecified kidney problems.
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Another workaround for FiOS router trouble.
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Keeping the Verizon FiOS router around to feed the TV connection, but using your own wireless router for your internal network. The brute force option for fixing problems with FiOS + wireless.
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How to replace the Verizon modem with an Airport Extreme. Apparently you don’t want to do this if you have Verizon TV services too.
Day: December 23, 2008
Using an AirPort Express with FiOS
As I mentioned yesterday, there were a few unfinished items left after the FiOS installation yesterday. I got two of the items taken care of this morning, but I was a little disturbed at what I had to do to make things work.
After the installation was complete on Sunday, I connected to the administrative web page of the Actiontec router that Verizon had provided (and which is required with the Verizon TV package). I reconfigured the router to take over the network name (SSID) that I had been using on my AirPort Extreme, changed the security to WPA2, and set the passphrase to the one I had been using previously. Our laptops and my iPhone picked up the change, but my AirPort Express units (which provide wireless printer support and AirTunes) didn’t. They’re first generation AirPort Express, and do 802.11G and 802.11b only.
After some pulling my hair out this morning, I found a thread on the Apple support message boards that suggested that the original AirPort Express was incompatible with the Actiontec version of WPA2. I changed the Verizon router to use regular WPA and told the AirPort Express to use WPA/WPA2 for authentication. After rebooting, I finally got a good connection (green light) with the Express. My second Express didn’t need any reconfiguration–I simply unplugged it and plugged it back in, and it worked.
So there’s that. What’s left is getting my hard drive, with all my music, back on the network. I may have to run an Ethernet drop into the living room over Christmas. Or try one of the tricks for supplanting the Actiontec for wireless.
(It’s more than a little annoying, btw, that I had to use regular WPA instead of WPA2. WPA2 is a much more secure protocol and WPA has been cracked.)