Hardware Infract

There are two things that you can be sure of in electronics and computers.

One: The piece of hardware will become obsolete. It gets down to the fact that we all must realize, will something new with greater features be worth the trade off to learn the new interface.

Two: The piece of hardware will burn out and will need to be replaced.

This weekend in the middle of the most contentious IEP that I will preside over, the DSL modem burned out.

It sort of fired up and then died a couple of times. I am sure that an autopsy would reveal a faulty power board. There is no shame in its demise. As a bleeding edge adapter to DSL this one is my third. Each time it gets easier to swap out the hardware and replace it with the identical equipment. I looked all over for a CD to plug in the initialize the new piece of hardware.. as it said in the literature.. but no it was an on line like to a download piece of software that hooked me up. I was able to give this new beauty a new password that I could remember and son of gun it worked without a call to New Delhi via ATnT. I saw that my airport extreme was not communicating with the hardware. The software in the mac identified that the ethernet connection was empty. A hookup with with the yellow wire and I was back in business.

The first DSL connection had to have a phone installer.

The second DSL b0x required and hour and 40 minutes with a Mac person at ATnT.

This last one was all handled in the software. I didn't even have to do submask or any of that other gobbly gook.

Life is good.

: ) Pat