kurt is a god among men, and i'll tell you why.

i am currently blogging. FROM MY COMPUTER. the networking issue is solved! and for the sake of anyone who may be on google trying to find the same answers we were looking for before kurt shared his genius across the phone lines, here's a bunch of technobabble that hopefully includes any keywords anyone on google would use:

porno.

no wait, there's more. josh and i both have dell pcs running windows xp. we have verizon dsl, and the following router: linksys 2.4 gHz broadband router, model number BEFW11S4. when we hooked up the dsl to josh's computer, internet worked fine. when we hooked the dsl up to the router and then josh's computer, it was a no go. and my computer got zero internet whatsoever. we are not a networking people!

so here's what kurt had me do: it took all of five minutes, and i didn't have to learn any networking mumbo jumbo.

on the computer where internet was working, we hooked up the dsl to the computer. went to start and chose run. in that box, type cmd and hit enter. brings up an old dos-looking box. in that box, type: ipconfig/all

then take the cord that was running from the dsl to the computer, and make it run from the dsl to the router. get your other network cable and run that from the router to the computer. in the dos box on the screen, type ipconfig/all again. check your internets, it should be good now.

if so, move on to the next computer. run a network cable from the router to that computer. go to start > run, and type cmd in that box so you get the dos looking crizzap on that computer, too. type ipconfig/all and hit enter. try your initernets again.

again, if you found this entry because you're having network issues and this didn't work for you, don't ask me why. ask kurt, he's the technology wizard!

and now, because i have internets on my own computer now, i can start updates on the website! let's celebrate by giving the first person to comment on this post 200 points!