No sooner had I transitioned from third world-esque comcast modem to FiOS that I realized my VPN connection was not working. Seeing as on occasion I am lucky enough to be one of those people whose morning commute invovles rolling out of bed, donning a pair of pajama pants, some fuzzy slippers and firing up the VPN connection; VPN is extremely important. After talking to the FiOS installation tech, he told me there is a known issue with packets becoming intermingled with their video on demand services as it all travels through the same pipe. He was not sure how to fix it, but assured me he would put me in touch with his supervisor. Being the impatient technophile that I am, I hit the interwebs to see if they had a solution. After some incessant googling, trial and error, forwarding ports, etc. I came across an answer.
So, here it is. My solution to VPN on FiOS with the Actiontec router. (This may not work for everyone, but if it you can reach just one person... and all that) So, I fired up the admin console for the router, go to advanced, and go to "Quality of Service". Under "QoS Input Rules" => "WAN PPPOE Rules" click add, then set the Priority to 7 - Highest. That should do it! No crawling back to comcast on my hands and knees!
TiVo HD is awesome!
So I upgraded from crappy comcast CSRs, billing fiascoes and compressed HD signals to Verizon FiOS (more on this later). First thing I do is go through the process of repeating the guided setup so that my channels are right. I go into my season pass manager as I expect to have to re-add all my season passes due to the new channels, but lo and behold, TiVo has found all my season passes on their new stations with no intervention on my part! It had even found the programs on HD channels and scheduled those to record. It still displays the old station number on the season pass, but this is a minor detail and who cares if it records correctly? TiVo never ceases to impress me.
Hello World!
Yeah, I know it is trite and probably every computer nerd in the world uses this phrase for their first app, but here it is anyways: The "Hello World" for my blogging alter ego. I have no idea what will actually show up on this blog, but I hope it will end up being a chronicle of an uber-nerd struggling with technology on a day to day basis, and eventually, how he beats the technology into submission. We will see what actually makes it up on the interblags though .
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