Adventures in IT

Last night after dinner, I helped my girlfriend set up her DSL connection in her new apartment...at least I tried to. Now I've done this kind of set up two times before, once for my computer and the other time was at the old job and I've run into the same problem each and every time.

In order for the installation to complete, you have to register the modem with the 2wire website. However, this site always seems to be down or unavailable during the initial registration. To make matters worse, if you halt the installation process there, you have to uninstall and then reinstall the software all over again in order to get the install utility to kick in. It's a bit of a pisser, but once this thing is up and running, I think it wil serve her and her roomates just fine. She'll just have to wait until that website gets up and running again.