Can you pur a wireless gateway on your router, and have that connect to the Hotspot? That should give the whole LAN internet.
You'd probably have to physically swap plugs on the router from your cable modem to the gateway and back to get the router to notice new internet.
Don't know. That's over my head. Since this is only an interim thing until they repair my cable to the street, it's certainly not worth investing an some piece of new hardware I don't even know how to use.
BUT ... I'm definitely going to have to dump this cable company.
I had an appointment for this morning (Sunday) between 8:00 and 11:00. At 8:05 I received a text message that the technician was cancelling the appointment and closing the repair ticket because **I** missed the appointment. Except that I was sitting right here, and he didn't show up.
So I called (again), dealt with their idiotic phone tree (again), and got a new appointment for this afternoon (still Sunday) between 2:00 and 5:00. I asked that they be sure to inform the technician that the problem was the cable at the street. They said they would note that on the repair order.
Around 4:30 a technician called to tell me he had arrived. I told him the problem was at the street. A few minutes later he called again to tell me that he couldn't perform the repair because they need to rehang the cable from the pole across the street, and to do that they need a bucket truck. He said he would put in a request to change the appointment.
A few minutes later I got a call from some dweeb who said he was calling the "verify" that **I** had requested to change the appointment. I told him that I absolutely had not requested to change the appointment, that their technician had said he couldn't make the repair so **HE** needed to reschedule. So the dweeb then said, "Okay, so I understand that you do not want the repair to be made." I told him that I DO want the repair to be made, as soon as possible, but that **I** had not requested a change of appointment -- their technician did. The dweeb said he would double check with the technician and call me back.
Then I received a text message informing me that **I** had missed the appointment, so the repair ticket was cancelled.
So I had to call yet again, and set up a new appointment. The new story is that the previous repair ticket was for an inside repair (which had NOT been discussed previously), so they had cancelled that repair ticket and they were creating a new ticket for an outside repair.
I'm absolutely certain that I'm going to be billed for at least one **missed** appointment, probably two. And God only knows when they may get around to actually repairing my cable.
I have to get rid of these leaches. They've played this game before. They flat out lie about the history of repair tickets. The last big flap, I had a string of text messages and they simply denied everything I had right in front of me.
The telephone company supposedly has fiber Internet on my street now. The problem is, the telephone company is Frontier. Does anyone have Frontier fiber Internet? Is it okay? How are they to deal with if you need repairs?
