This day is not ending well.

I was using my Huawei pocket WiFi in the back of the cab from the airport to my mom’s. Got to my mom’s but the modem didn’t. It’s probably sitting on the back seat of the cab. Fortunately this is a private car service and a driver my mother has been using for years and I was his last ride of the night. Hopefully it’s sitting on the back seat (I went back down to the street with a flashlight but couldn’t find it) and he’ll find it and return it at some point tomorrow.

So in the meantime, my mother is on Optimum for cable TV, IP phone and Internet. She has standard internet settings, DHCP, etc, you plug the ethernet cable into the back of her PC and she’s good to go. And last time, I’d simply pop that cable into my laptop and also be good to go. I’ve looked at the network set-up properties on her computer and there’s nothing special there, no login name or password, all the usual stuff.

But my MacBook is being finicky. It shows an ethernet connection, shows that it’s set for DHCP, but giving me some error message about the connection and not connecting to the internet. I’m tired, didn’t write the message down, got some Snow Leopard books on my Kindle, take a look tomorrow I guess. Until then …. sigh.

Hongkie Town
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