This is pretty Cool 🙂

Ok so after months of not being able to figure out why I couldn’t enable port forwarding on my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router and not being able to remotely access my playon & plex media servers, I was able to get finally get it working.

I discovered that the cause of all my woes was the Motorola SBG6580 modem That Time Warner cable gave me. What I discovered was that it was working like a firewall & keeping my real router for doing what I wanted it to do. Thankfully that”s all fixed now.

After much googling I discovered that what I needed to do was get the modem into bridge mode. Basically the modem has 2 MAC Addresses, 1 for the actual modem (WAN MAC) and 1 for the internal router (LAN MAC).  Time Warner Cable provisions the MAC address (LAN MAC) of the internal router to have access on their network and any other MAC Address such as that of your PC or router, will simply not work.

When you enable bridging mode and turn the device into a cable modem, you’re then passing along your computers and/or routers MAC Address, which is not provisioned in their system. They will refuse to provision a new MAC address over the phone and your modem wont go online. To fix this and have your modem go online, follow these steps:

1. Unplug the coaxial cable from the Motorola modem
2. Hold down the  reset button on the back panel with a pen for 30 seconds, this will reset all settings to factory defaults. The modem will be auto-configured again once you plug the coaxial cable back in.
3. When modem is back on hook your computer’s ethernet cable into the modem.
4. Once you have a connection, open your browser and go to the address http://192.168.0.1 and login with the user name “admin” and password “motorola”
5. Your going to make a few changes to the configuration:
   1. Wireless -> Primary Network -> Disabled
   2. Basic -> Setup -> NAPT Mode -> Disabled
   3. Basic -> DHCP -> No
   4. Advanced -> Options -> Rg Passthrough -> Enable
   5. Copy and save the LAN Mac Address from the Basic > Configuration Section
   6. Then go to Advanced -> Options -> Passthrough Mac Addresses -> and Add the LAN MAC Address that you copied & saved.
6. Save all the settings and then plug the coaxial cable back into the Modem & power cycle it.
7. Unplug your computer’s ethernet cable from the modem and plug it back into your router.
8. You should now be able to forward ports correctly on your own router.

So now I have a working router and can actually utilize my playon and plex media servers from locations besides my local lan.

This is a full run of Caduceus Manor in Story Mode, It’s a quick run & it’s good for earning some cash & XP.

Music: Firestarter by prodigy

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This dolphin is spazzing out

This is our guild Travelers of Tyria[TOT[ running Caduceus manor starting from the 2nd boss, I forgot to hit the record button until then. I will do another recording from the beginning next time we run it.

Chrome recently implemented a change removing the ability to install scripts & extensions from 3rd party websites. You can easily work around this to install the ice quick stream script and other user scripts & extensions from 3rd party locations by doing the following.

• Find the google chrome icon on your desktop
• Right click on the icon and then select properties
• In the dialog that opens you’ll see a box labeled target
• The target box contains something similar to the following line
  C:\username\App Data\Local\Google Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
• at the end of the line add a space then paste the following:
  --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install
• your end result should look like this:
  C:\username\App Data\Local\Google Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install
• Click apply and then click OK
• close chrome completely by clicking the wrench and clicking exit and then relaunch it using the shortcut you just modified. You should now be able to install user scripts & extensions from any website once again.

I hope this helps.

p.s. this also works on linux launchers.

So I finally managed to get my new computer all built and put together. The only problem I have is my front audio ports don’t seem to work. I know I have them plugged in correctly, but after searching google it appears this seems to be a common issue with this case. Luckily I have a razer lycosa keyboard so I just use the audio ports on it instead. Seems to work fine.

This is the baby shower we held for my niece Jaelynn July 8, 2012. In my family we have a tradition of waiting until after the baby is born to have the shower so that everyone can see the new addition.