Zoom Zoom Crash

May 11th, 2004 - 22:10 | 4 comments

There is now officially no form of the word ‘networking’ that I don’t hate. I have yet again being playing with the router from hell, and have to conclude we’d be better served by reverting to carrier pigeon. Did you know that Zoom adsl modems default to a 10.x.x.x ip address? It’s not a big thing, but I think they do it just to make initial configuration as annoying as possible. Zoom adsl modems also have a nice habit of waiting for something to time out on startup if they can’t connect in the same way they did before they were turned off. This timeout usually lasts about ten minutes. It’s annoying enough when you can’t figure out why it’s not working all of a sudden, so in desperation you press the hardware reset button and again come across the aforementioned 10.x.x.x ip address ‘feature’. However, you really have to have the timeout occur when you’ve got seven minutes before the place you’re working in closes to appreciate the ionospheric level of irritation it causes. So this company are going to have no network access tomorrow morning, and it’s going to be all my fault. Ho hum. The worrying thing is that I have a goddamn qualification in networking, and it’s still taking me hours and hours to figure out how to work things properly.

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4 Responses to “Zoom Zoom Crash”

1 Simon May 11th, 2004 at 11:53 pm

No qualification in the world can prepare you for the realities of life my friend. Then again, completing SAS training might be close, or at least if you can’t resolve a problem you know how to kill it
2 Edward May 12th, 2004 at 8:58 pm

Quick question:
If I’m stuck behind a router on a different subnet, can I print/connect to the computers on the network which the otherside of the router is conneted to?

Scenario:
I have a router connected to my internet connection at college, to protect myself that bit more of muppets with no av sofware / w u. College allows me to print from my room, via a windows server. I can’t be bothered to go down stairs and then upstairs and then go downstairs and then down more stairs to get to the computer room, for me then to have to work out what my password is. i.e. lazy == me.
So, can I print from my room by opening ports, do you think?
3 Andrew May 13th, 2004 at 4:13 pm

Ummm…thinks.

Are the printers shared via the standard Windows file/printer sharing? If so you should be able to do it by opening ports, but as file & printer sharing as so interlinked you may be compromising your security…perhaps. Can you print via LPR:

http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/print-lpr.shtml

?
4 Ed May 17th, 2004 at 11:48 pm

I wondered whether since I’m using a router to connect onto my network (as well), this might also stop it because I’m on a different subnet.
(that’s not stopped other people (last year) attempting to hack me over the net though….)

I’d only be opening myself up to the people in college, but that’s bad enough… (we’re covered by a router allowing access to the net)

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