Can you believe the cable company said "we hooked up the modem and thats all you paid us for."
I was disgusted


The real network problem was two limitations on my internet account so my ip address would expire after 20 seconds.

The ip would then switch to 169...

when the cable company teletech heard that he figured it was a windows problem.

then the dell tech told me to delete the hard drive partition.




It has been frustratingly fun though
thanks again for the input


p.s. ive looked for a more general board to use but I cant seem to find the caliberof people from AO anywhere else