Wireless Internet folks: HELP!

[skoosiepants]

Bare with my stupidity here: How does this work? Does Verizon have to come out and install something, or do I buy my own router and they just turn something on? Can someone who's set something like this up let me know what you've gone through? Customer Service is unhelpful if you're just asking questions. It's like, sign up or eat shit. No in between. And right now I'm just sort of researching options. So. Any advice??

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[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

With verizon I got sent a disc and a pluggy in center and I think we bought our own router, but I set everything up myself. It was pretty easy.

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

It SUCKS doing this by myself. I can't figure it out.

[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

If I lived close enough I would come by and do it, but since I do not I can't.

[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

What part of it are you having trouble with exactly?

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

I followed all directions and set it up, and it wouldn't work. The laptop *said* it was working, but my browsers were blank. And my desktop connection wouldn't work AT ALL. I finally disconnected it and reset it up the old way just to get online and beg for help.

[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

So you are having trouble with the disc itself? Did you connect the lynksys up right?

I really suck with this stuff if I can't see it.

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

It kept freezing my screen, so I'm thinking maybe it didn't finish? But then why say it was connected? I don't know what to do. I'll probably just try again tomorrow. bleh. now I wish I just paid someone to do it. The best buy guy said that lots of people have trouble with linksys set up. J's like, oh it's be EASY. HA! *he* didn't spend all night trying to figure it out. In fact, he's *asleep* right now.

[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

I had a bit of trouble with it, but it was because my grandmother didn't have a wireless card in her computer and I didn't have my wireless switch on. Once we got those taken care of it worked. You should call the Verizon support line. I always get help from them when I call. It's one of the things I like best about Verizon.

You could try googling your problem as well and see if anything has anything to help. I am searching for anything that will help.

If your screen froze it may not have finished. Do you have the verizon wireless itself set up yet? If you don't you should do that first.

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

I'm actually just going through my comcast highspeed, so I can't call ANYONE to help, because I'm setting it up myself. But I know the laptop is wireless ready, cause it keeps telling me that... it even says it's connected, and that the signal is "excellent" but omg I'm going crazy. I"m considering ruining my neighborhood cred and calling in the geek squad. This sucks! I finally went to bed last night after playing with it for four hours.

[nunshavingfun.livejournal.com]

Oh. I don't know jack about comcast. Sorry.