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[Ankari]

*sighs* Indeed. I just hope they'll regain even some of that former trust by the end of this. We don't need a whole group of spiteful, mistrustful Ankaris. (At least Ankari himself kinda became reasonable...)

I'm pretty surprised by how everyone is taking his last couple of updates. He basically said he would murder the entire village because he thought them to be lowly, cowardly, and hypocrites. If not for Mauve's suggestion to focus on Catli, he would have slain a couple more people before this episode ended.

Yes, I actually had the workings of another dark scene ruminating in my mind. Who? Gisla was a target, depending how things went. definitely more of the elders.

 

[Ireth]

I'm pretty surprised by how everyone is taking his last couple of updates. He basically said he would murder the entire village because he thought them to be lowly, cowardly, and hypocrites. If not for Mauve's suggestion to focus on Catli, he would have slain a couple more people before this episode ended.

Yes, I actually had the workings of another dark scene ruminating in my mind. Who? Gisla was a target, depending how things went. definitely more of the elders.

I'm still dreading the moment he finds Cadell. Like, really, seriously. Please don't kill him. Unless you want Liadan to track Ankari down and kill HIM in revenge. Seriously.

 

[Nihal]

I'm pretty surprised by how everyone is taking his last couple of updates. He basically said he would murder the entire village because he thought them to be lowly, cowardly, and hypocrites. If not for Mauve's suggestion to focus on Catli, he would have slain a couple more people before this episode ended.

Yes, I actually had the workings of another dark scene ruminating in my mind. Who? Gisla was a target, depending how things went. definitely more of the elders.

It's funny how she prevented him from going on a killing spree but is the only PC who wouldn't mind at all if Arendal was wiped out of the map.

I'm curious about his next steps now... actually, about everyone. Everyone lost their minds in a way or another this day. Besides Ankari murdering people then becoming the voice of the reason we have Cadell sneaking out to try his own plan behind everyone's back, a mistrustful and spiteful Baldhart who is about to fill all the free spots on her helmet with fresh marks, the mistrustful Aliron trusting and leaving Burnbright and Branwen with a stranger(!!)...

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Yeah, but the fresh marks (if her plan works/happens) would all be on Nissa's side. The little one's catching up!

 

[Nihal]

Was it Baldhart who came up with the plan? If yes, for this and the effort put in luring them to the trap she should get half of the kills! If the plan works.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

I'm pretty surprised by how everyone is taking his last couple of updates. He basically said he would murder the entire village because he thought them to be lowly, cowardly, and hypocrites. If not for Mauve's suggestion to focus on Catli, he would have slain a couple more people before this episode ended.

Yes, I actually had the workings of another dark scene ruminating in my mind. Who? Gisla was a target, depending how things went. definitely more of the elders.

CHA check of 22… had to have Baldy's assumptions work in Ankari's favor. The only doubt she has is whether she should have told the guy she tried to kill how to easily set her up to be killed by thirty-plus enemies. She fluffs that off with a 'meh.'

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Was it Baldhart who came up with the plan? If yes, for this and the effort put in luring them to the trap she should get half of the kills! If the plan works.

I think of it as both when Nissa's directly involved. I guess it really is on Baldhart, but she counts kills based on who struck the final blow. She actually did the most damage to the six-legger, but she calls it Ankari's kill.

It has more to do with her faith—why Brynhild's followers don't used ranged attacks (according to Nissa)—and nothing to do with scorekeeping.



She could get killed for the effort of luring them into the trap. That might put a few marks on her helmet.

 

[Ireth]

Steer, did my latest PM reach you, or have you just not had the chance to respond to it yet?

 

[Ireth]

If you can't, time to update drivers, etc, but there is a good chance your wireless card is fried.

Any idea how I update my drivers? I'm this close to ragequitting and just getting the hard drive wiped (after I back up all the things, of course). Nothing. Is. Working. I tried installing my sister's USB wireless adapter, but that didn't help at all.

 

[Nihal]

The Windows has an option to look for new drivers... which never works.

Laptops can be a bit tricky. You should check if the laptop manufacturer released new drivers for your model first. If not, get your network card model and look for drivers for it, at its manufacturer's site first, then google.

Why the adapter didn't help? Honestly, I would try it first before messing with the drivers to discover if you need to mess with the drivers in first place—it could always be your router.

 

[Ireth]

it could always be your router.

It can't be. As I've said, my sisters' computers (laptop and desktop) both work fine, and when my mom dropped in yesterday she was able to get onto the network via her iPhone. The problem is clearly in my laptop, but it's not telling me where!

 

[Nihal]

The fact they're able to connect means nothing unless they never connected to this network before, like you.

The fact that you're able to connect to other wireless networks also means it's not your laptop—unless it wasn't tested in the same conditions it's facing at your home (eg. with passwords and WPA2).

 

[Ireth]

The fact they're able to connect means nothing unless they never connected to this network before, like you.

That's precisely the case. Mom asked me for the wifi name and password, she typed it in, she was connected. Boom.

The fact that you're able to connect to other wireless networks also means it's not your laptop—unless it wasn't tested in the same conditions it's facing at your home (eg. with passwords and WPA2).

Also exactly the case. I even went to a nearby McDonald's this afternoon to test their wifi with my laptop. I got onto the network without needing a password, but got no internet access, just like at home.

 

[Nihal]

1. She could still have logged on this network before. You can always delete the login and password from your device, the router doesn't care.

2. Not every open wifi is truly open. If this one is truly open, it'll be possible to know if you can connect at anything at all, but it won't be the same situation of your home, because it has no password. Also, didn't you take your laptop to a technician and he said it was okay, ran tests and everything? How come it wouldn't be okay now?


-- You didn't answer about the USB wifi adapter. If you found hard to use it, be warned that updating your laptop drivers is, potentially, 20x harder and worse. I would keep trying the adapter first.

 

[Ireth]

1. She could still have logged on this network before. You can always delete the login and password from your device, the router doesn't care.

Impossible. This is the first time she's been here since the network was set up.

2. Not every open wifi is truly open. If this one is truly open, it'll be possible to know if you can connect at anything at all, but it won't be the same situation of your home, because it has no password. Also, didn't you take your laptop to a technician and he said it was okay, ran tests and everything? How come it wouldn't be okay now?

I don't know, but I have one theory. I tested the browsers by going to sites I visit often, simply because they're the first ones that came to mind when the techie said "okay, now try typing in a website to see if it works." I recall reading somewhere that you should do the opposite, and test with sites you don't visit often, because your computer may have stored those often-visited sites in its memory and is showing them despite not working properly. But that doesn't explain why they never show up when I try at home. All I get is "problem loading page" or "cannot display the webpage". Which is why it's just a theory.

You didn't answer about the USB wifi adapter. If you found hard to use it, be warned that updating your laptop drivers is, potentially, 20x harder and worse. I would keep trying the adapter first.

The definition of insanity: trying the exact same thing over and over, expecting a different result. I've done far too much of that already with every other stinking "solution" my laptop advises. Getting pretty fed up at nothing working for me.

 

[Nihal]

It's called cache. Any decent technician would know to tell apart cached content from real content. If you tried the same site before and nothing came up it's wasn't the cache at the store. There is still the detail of the ethernet connection: If he used one to test he just skipped testing your wifi card, which might be dead.

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And who told the USB adapter equals to your network card? If your card is fried or defective in any way the adapter will work, the card won't, end of the story.

If you're fed up just go to technician again or call one to your home to check your router and be done with it. Being aggressive won't magically solve your problem.


P.s.: Some dead wifi cards still seem work. One day, the wifi of my sister's laptop stopped working. After much troubleshooting, driver updates and the hell, I managed to kick it back to life a couple of times, but it worked for 1h at the best, not even 5 min at the worst. Her wifi card was dying. The ethernet and an USB wifi worked.

The tech could have temporarily fixed the problem. I particularly find it unlikely to be a dying card, for it worked before moving. It would be a hell of a coincidence.

 

[Ireth]

It's called cache. Any decent technician would know to tell apart cached content from real content. If you tried the same site before and nothing came up it's wasn't the cache at the store. There is still the detail of the ethernet connection: If he used one to test he just skipped testing your wifi card, which might be dead.

I don't know what he used to test. I just know I don't want to pay another $170 for something that may or may not actually help.

And who told the USB adapter equals to your network card? If your card is fried or defective in any way the adapter will work, the card won't, end of the story.

I'm not tech-savvy enough to know these things, and apparently neither are my sisters, because they haven't exactly been helpful in that regard.

If you're fed up just go to technician again or call one to your home to check your router and be done with it. Being aggressive won't magically solve your problem.

I'm just sick and tired of being confused, and crazy-hormonal to boot, which is just amplifying the problem. (Yay for womanhood. /sarcasm) And seeing a technician again is easier said than done, because I don't know the bus route very well yet and my sisters aren't always willing or able to accompany me.

 

[SomethingToPonder]

Wow ireth i have just read over the last page or 2 and heard about your problems, I had a similar problem once, and I could not get it rectifyed for the life of me. it may be a long shot, but depending on what browser you use you may have to log into a captive portal beforehand. I doubt this is the case but you never know.

The fact that your saying everyone else can log on fine really confuses the subject and in my opinion means that it is your laptop and not the router. The router is obviously working fine or nobody else could connect to it. Now in my opinion as well, the problem must lie with the part of your laptop that actually connects to wifi networks. It could be as simple a problem as you have bumped the laptop and a component has come loose inside, Or it could be a physical fault. In either case, the fact you paid a technician $170 to take a look at it, and he has no idea what is wrong is a serious fault on his behalf. He should not have taken the money if he had no clue what was wrong. perhaps he could have taken the hourly wage for his time, but that is all, that is daylight robbery. You could have bought A cheap laptop for $170.

I feel really bad for you because I know how fristrating these things are, you can spend hours and hours looking for a fault and it may well turn out to be something really stupid.

 

[Steerpike]

Heading over to go through the posts now

 

[SeverinR]

http://mythicscribes.com/forums/research/9734-fighting-one-arm.html
A site Cadell might want to read.