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Sorry, that’s a v1.18.345 hamster so your sacrifice won’t work as your router only accepts v1.2.829 or higher.

Stupid router. v1.18.345 is the higher one.
The hamster must have introduced breaking changes if they're incompatible.

Rogers is down right now and I’m this close to grabbing the neighbor’s cat to do this.

No, v1.2 is the higher version. The full name is "hamster gen 3 maxpro v1.2"

v1.18 was the final version of "hamster gen 3 maxpro first edition."

I dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi's down when it's actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down.

People at my work have said this even though they're using docks plugged with Cat 5.

First of all, fuck Rogers with a rusty statue of a cactus, and second, fuck them again.

I don't understand how a company that big can be that bad at uptime. I moved to Teksavvy years ago and haven't had any outages since. I refuse to do direct business with any of the big three.

I was gonna say that the hamster is too new and the router can’t parse minor versions with two digits in it, but I like your answer better.

The actual solution is to flash it with OpenWRT

Probably because ISPs like to fob you off with suggestions of poor wifi rather than address the actual internet issue you contact them about.

You guys, WiFi isn't magic it's science so you must sacrifice a Scientist.

What’s Teksavvy and how can I get it?

ISP. They they piggyback off Rogers/Cogeco/whoever for the last mile connection, but in my experience have been more reliable and haven't had any of the downtime that Rogers has.

How do you flash OpenWRT on a hamster? Asking for a friend

If you it’s your neighborhood cat, then it’s probably only cat 1 or cat 2, so it won’t be of much use to you unless you wanna play Zork on your local community college’s mainframe. That might work.

Back in the day, the fuzzy ones had to sacrifice bandwidth for cuteness.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But v1.18.x is higher than v1.2.x? 🤨

The 18th update of version 1 vs the 2nd update of version 1.

Please search before asking questions.

Either this is the Hamster pro max v1.2 v18.345 which is different from the Hamster Max v1.0 or the router can’t parse two digit minor versions because it’s too old.

But I demand instant answers to my question regardless of the quality of my writing skills and in total disregard of time of the day?!

Step 1:

Non-technical people don't have any idea what a LAN is, and can't imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.

So WiFi becomes a synonym for "Internet connection", perfectly interchangeably.

Thank you, this solution worked perfectly.

Hello I accidentally sacrificed Hamster Pro Max to my regular Pro router. There weren't any warnings or errors it just took its soul, and now when I turn it on the light flashes red 3 times and for a few seconds I can see the eighth circle of hell where Diviners are forced to walk backwards blinded by their own tears.

What I want to ask is, can I extend the timer to at least a minute? This super cute witch winked at me, but when I try to ask her out all I hear are screams of the damned and then the connection goes down please help me.

Fediverse threads are not a valid support inquiry channel. Please write your question in blood and burn it under the full moon to submit a support request.

Have you tried to turn it off and on again?

Does it have to be a good one or will one that's shilling for fossil fuel interests do?

#TwoBirds #Efficiency

I can't do full moon, is there an option for lycanthropycally-challenged?

As an alternative, please download and print out a picture of a full moon and fax your blood to us in a PDF

For valued customers like you we have an accessible support system. Just submit your blood-written note on the 29th of February.

You must appease the Machine Spirits.

Is the Wi-Fi down, or is Internet access down? Because you're probably gonna need a gerbil instead of that hamster

Cat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn't just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren't just taking a couple minutes to load?

The hamster has a PhD

Don't worry. The magic 'may' return.

And in most operating systems the wifi icon turns into some other error icon if there's no internet. So I can see the confusion.

Oh, the machine god is down again.

Have you heard about Ai?

Wifi being down is just a minor inconvenience for tech oriented people. Spare some lives and just contact your local geek/nerd.

Get the Magos in here!

Well if they're only getting 10Mbps over Cat5 then the cable's busted, since normally they're rated for 2.5GbE.

Nope, Cat5 was nominally rated for 100 MHz, but was superseded by Cat5e for greater reliability at such speeds

I have already started burning the sacred incense.

Yeah, e. Just didn't bother with the variance. Though, could even be Cat6 for all I know, never looked.

Almost just said Cat but figured that may confuse people. Our engineers keeping the network purring like a kitty.

Is that a Qualcomm chipset? Sorry bud, you're gonna have to wait 8-12 business decades for that firmware to be supported.

So the hamster is magic?

Internet down? That's ok I have stuff on my jellyfin.

ugh didn't you hear about the CVE affecting v1.2.823-1.2.967 though? Those hamsters had missing input validation which could be exploited to overflow the buffer size and execute remote inputs. Your router is basically toast at that point.

Probably should have just said "Ethernet"

The Category 5e specification improves upon the Category 5 specification by further mitigating crosstalk. The bandwidth (100 MHz) and physical construction are the same between the two, and most Cat 5 cables actually happen to meet Cat 5e specifications even though they are not certified as such.

I did kinda mean it as a joke originally, but yeah 5/5e are the same outside of crosstalk resistance.

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Or just learn how the god damned devices you use work.

I do not understand how it became so normalized to just not bother with knowing how anything works. It's not like this is a new thing either. So many old jokes surrounding people's VCR clocks not being set.