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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:01 pm
I just spent over an hour on the phone with comcast trying to get my wireless router to work with my work laptop. What a nightmare. It still can't see the network. Now I wonder if my wireless printer still works. I'm so exhausted I can even deal with the cable boxes right now. 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:03 pm
Brenda, never use Comcast for that stuff. Get a computer guy. I tried to get them to set up my router, and they really had no clue. Computer guy had it working in 15 minutes.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:13 pm
Oh ya - then there's the whole "getting it to work" thing. Brenda, did they send you to the router log-in page and talk you through changing some of the settings? I actually got someone decent the second time I tried to set up the wireless, but it still took about 1/2 hour. Just talking about it make me want to get soused. Karuuna, they're not any better they just have fewer avenues in which to screw you. Comcast can bone you from a multitude of directions, sometimes all at once. I'm like you, at least I don't have my phone with them but that means I also have to deal with AT&T. Sigh. No matter where you go, there you are.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:16 pm
ok, maybe I should just give up tv and the internet? lol
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:31 pm
I had the wireless router working just fine with my windows 7 laptop, it's the old windows xp work computer (that has all kinds of firewall stuff on it) that I can't get working. Very frustrating. And with all the wireless network setting changes, now my printer doesn't work. Aaahhh!
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 12:21 pm
i have the cell # to my Comcast installer who lives around the corner from me. He just comes to my house when I need something fixed. He picked up my old box and gave me my new one when I went to HD. LOVE COMCAST!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 1:45 pm
So are you guys telling me there is something I can get to solve this problem with the VCR? The cable guy said there wasn't a solution and Comcast didn't care that it was a problem, he was sympathetic. Here is my situation. I had expanded basic with no boxes on my tv's just the cable going into the VCR. Comcast said I had to have the little digital convertor boxes (no cost to me)if I wanted to continue to receive all my channels (I did get some more channels in the deal that I didn't have before-LNM, Hallmark, Style, G-4, Sci-fi), now the cable goes into them then the TV, the VCR has no ability to tell the TV to change channels. I can only set the time and put the TV on the correct channel and leave the room. Can no longer watch one thing and record another.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 1:50 pm
Dipo, my understanding is that only the "real" cable box can change the channel. These converter boxes they are giving for free, cannot be programmed to change their channel for a recording. However, if all you want to do is record one channel while you watch a different you, you can accomplish that with a splitter and another of those boxes. You'd split the cable coming in -- each one going to a converter box. Then you plug one into the vcr and one directly into the back of your TV. I have an A/B switch on mine as well, and I just flip that switch to determine which cable i'm using (the one through the vcr or the one directly into the tv).
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 5:40 pm
Brenda's right. Previously you used the tv's or vcr's tuner to decide which channel to watch or record from all the channels coming in on the cable. With the cable going into the converter box first, you choose the channel you want on the converter and only that channel is sent down the cable to the next device in the chain (vcr or tv). Using a splitter on the incoming cable, like Brenda says, works for taping something while you're watching something else, but you'd still have to set both converters manually to the channels you want to watch/record unless the cable company has given you flashy programmable converter boxes.
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Monday, March 22, 2010 - 11:37 am
Did anyone watch Kirstie Alleys new show that started last night?????
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:41 am
Yes, I did! Loving all the lemurs. Who knew she was such a nut for lemurs?! I liked it, and her house. I wish her luck in her wieght loss fight, but I don't have high hopes for her. I think the carpenter need to lose wieght more that she does. He's a heart attack waiting to happen. I also came to post about the cast for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: The 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Look Real Familiar
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 11:14 am
Love the lemurs too! I thought she was a hoot and her kids were cute.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:32 am
Anyone watching 'Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'? My 13 yr old just loves him so we watched it for her more than anything but it looks interesting and I think I will stick with it for awhile. The premise is Oliver trying to improve the eating habits of the unhealthiest town in the USA (and probably the world). I was floored by the level of defensiveness from some of those people. They cannot possibly think that the food they were feeding those children was healthy. They know this is an experiment intended to improve the lives of said children so why the blatant hostility?
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:40 am
watch channel is it on Rissa?
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:42 am
ABC in the USA and A Channel in Canada.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:53 am
thank you! 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 9:45 am
Rissa, I really enjoyed it as well and couldn't believe how stubborn all those people were. They don't want to look at anything differently because "that's the way we have always done it". I practically slap people who say that to me, it is not a good enough reason, LOL. OH, and they can't give those kids a choice for lunch, they will always choose the junk food, that is what they know! One thing I have learned from my friends with kids - too many choices and you won't get anywhere, LOL.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 10:05 am
I am willing to bet big money that their school district is also among the lower half when it comes to academic performance. You can't feed kids pizza for breakfast and get a group of rocket scientists. It is just sad, the kids couldn't even identify tomatoes. They are told that their children are the first generation who are not expected to live longer or even AS LONG as their parents and the attitude is basically... we don't care if it requires change. It really surprised me, speechless. You are so right when it comes to choice and it's not even soley and issue of choosing between healthy or junk. It's more that kids will stick with what is familiar rather than risking getting to the table and not liking the new thing. Also, did you see the way the lunch ladies were goading the kids? They would just assume they wanted pizza unless they put up their hands and opted out. (And ya I am calling you LUNCH LADIES!!!!!! I didn't see any real cookin' going on. LOLOL)
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 10:16 am
I was just checking out the Huntington wikipedia page and this is what it says in relation to that federal report: A report issued by the Centers for Disease Control August 15, 2008 using survey data from 2006 found that 24.3% of adults 18 years-of-age or older reported themselves as in poor to fair health.[13] The survey also found that 48.1% of residents over 65 years of age in the Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia-Kentucky-Ohio statistical area had all their natural teeth extracted. In addition, the CDC reports that 45.5% of adults older than 20 years are obese. 21.6% of adults over 45 years of age reported a diagnosis of coronary heart disease while another 12.7% of adults aged 18 or older reported a diagnosis of diabetes.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 10:19 am
Loved the show, love Jaime Oliver! Tears in his eyes, so touching. I loved the pastor too. The show the other night was a sneak peak and the premiere is this friday on ABC. Totally awesome show!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, March 26, 2010 - 12:55 pm
I posted this in the celebrity gossip area but I am thinking it's more relevant to be posted here. It looks like the Salahi's have been cast for the new Bravo show "Real Housewives of DC". The Salahi's are that couple that became famous after crashing the White House dinner. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/....
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 6:15 pm
Has anyone heard about the new Debbie Travis show? I caught it Saturday, in the middle of the show, so didn't see how it started, but a bunch of people are competing to work for her, I think. It reminded me of HGTV Design Star.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 6:32 pm
Dipo, I saw about half of it, also and thought surely it would be shown again at night but I haven't seen a listing for it. Strange for them to have a new big show like that on a Sat afternoon and not prime time.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Monday, April 05, 2010 - 6:03 am
I didn't see it but it sounds like From the Ground Up which has Season 2 starting sometime around now. Wasn't Season 1 much more than a yr ago? I half-watched the first season and didn't think it did well enough to warrant another go. My mom will be thrilled. LOL
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, April 05, 2010 - 11:18 am
I know, Twinkie, I haven't seen any advertising for it either. Guess I will have to go to HGTV.com and seen when it is supposed to be on.
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