Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Connecting to Internet in new PG.

I shifted to a different PG from company provided guest house. The first thing I wanted to ensure was internet connectivity in the new PG.I had a wifi connectivity in guest house. I thought of having the same in PG but I was told that getting a wifi from airtel was a tedious process as it requires address proofs and it will take 1-2 weeks to get it. Airtel has very good GPRS offers these days. So I took a new airtel connection here which is yet to be activated. So I am still using my Karnataka airtel number for calls and internet access.
Well after unpacking my things I switched on my lappi and tried to access internet through nokia PC suite and found an error that my remote access connection service is stopped. To increase my laptop speed I had stopped some services which I felt I can stop.I just opened services windows and tried to start it but it had dependent services which were stopped(to increase speed of laptop). If I could have explored the services window properly I could have started the service in 2 mins. But I first thought to google the solution for this. Since I had no internet access, I called up my friend and told about this error and asked him to see the possible solution for this error. He was trying from his end and meanwhile I uninstalled nokia pc suite and installed it again thinking it would resolve my problem even though this was not at all required.
Later I googled out the solution and it turned out to be very simple. On checking the properties of the service there was a tab listing all the dependent services, I just started them and Bingo! My service started. I thought of accessing the net. But since I reinstalled nokia pc suite and for some reason my laptop was throwing another issue “USB connected in non compatible code”. I guess the uninstallation screwed some compatible drivers for my phone.
I needed to download these drivers in my laptop but I can’t connect my phone to laptop. Then I tried a new thing, I used Bluetooth to connect my computer to internet via phone and downloaded the drivers. Then I tried connecting to my phone to laptop and it finally worked. So i could post my blogs again.
So that was an action packed 3 hours for me, what I learnt was don’t do unnecessary things to solve any given problem and if we explore all options on anything on computer we can resolve our computer issues in less time than googling it out and wasting time. Third thing is even if we go in the wrong direction don’t be disheartened as it will help in exploring new solutions and learning new things. I learnt to connect to internet via Bluetooth in above episode.
So moral of the story is “all izz well”.

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