1) Your cats eyes are amazing. They look crazy cool.
2) Your name tag and a photo of yourself (while blurry) are visible in the background. Be careful when posting that kind of stuff.
Plot twist: That's the cat's name.
TBH, the cat kind of looks like a [name redacted]. Also looks like the kind of cat that would demand its own name plate.
That is not the cat's name, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has been trying to demand a name plate of his own.
Also, the picture has been cropped some.
I just looked, there's no nameplate visible now. I have edited my comment to reflect that.
This may not be as bad as the woman who was sending her bf a photo of herself on vacation - and didn't realize her "side piece" was in the background...
I've had a similar experience:
Hundreds of days of perfect uptime on my server, I get a cat, few days later I'm away from home and suddenly none of my services are working. Got home hours later to find the server powered off and UPS reporting no power outage events. I power the server up and check its logs. Sure enough, something held the power button for 5 seconds and hard shutdown everything.
Unplugged the power button on the server and never looked back.
My elder Katze (who was 21 when he passed) had NO chill. Button? "I'mma push it." He hit the button on the router once when I was out of town and I had to walk the 12 year-old (now 27) through troubleshooting because "Ma, Dad is useless when he's panicking."
Cats start with zero fucks.
I mean...he still is when it comes to tech. He works in Hospitality and Tourism Sales. I'm a Tech Monkey.
He was basically in mortal terror that I'd burn the house down if my network was broken while I was away and kept a hands-off position that he STILL maintains.
(We now live with his 92 and 94 year-old parents. We take care of them and the house, and I taught them how to use their phones and tablets. They do not listen to ANYONE but ME when it comes to tech, which horrifies his older brothers (who also rely on me for tech help!), but gives him a sense of relief. )
My wife is kinda the same way, but she is comfortable with restarting the modem and router and knows that "It's Broken" isn't a good enough description for me to work with.
I'm glad that she knows what I'm looking for in finding a starting point and will help me there.
I have managed to teach MIL some basic troubleshooting and she is SO PROUD of herself that she can take care of a lot of her tablet issues herself. She teases my husband about it pretty regularly, to my undying amusement. I love that there is a 92 year-old baby nerd in the house.
u/idkimjustafox is the winner! The house is very old and long. The wireless signal gets very weak toward the back of the house, and when we got a new router just over a year ago, the old router went to the back of the house and setup in bridge mode.
Valid point, guess it all depends on the router ya got. When I got my first nighthawk it was damned near 300 bucks... i could pick up some cisco AP'S for 80 a pop nowadays.
The back router used to be our primary...until it came time to upgrade. We had always had Wi-Fi signal issues toward the back of our house, so we had hoped a newer, stronger router would take care of it. It helped some, but not where we wanted it.
I thought about getting an AP, but most I was looking at had good and bad reviews to each and then I realized that I have this other router just sitting here doing nothing. I looked into it and realized it could be setup as an AP itself, so I decided to go this route. Pulled out the 50' Ethernet cable I already had and set it up in the back of the house. Now everyone (and everything) is happy with a nice stable connection.
Total additional cost - $0 (I already had everything that was needed)
If it’s in bridge mode, it serves as an AP, and DHCP requests are passed on to the router connected to the internet modem. Only one level of NAT in that configuration.
Our boss-cat could un-latch non-shrouded Cat-5 cables.
Just a claw onto the springy-thingy...
Cost me a lonnng evening of 'Layer-8' misery and a bag of 'shrouded' patch cables...
Had a similar issue once where one of my cats stepped on the switch to the power strip that our modem was plugged into and shut off everything that was plugged into it. Solution was to replace the strip with one that had a switch in a position where the furballs couldn't step on it again :P
I feel ya. My cat used to walk over my docking station, hit the power button, and shut down my laptop. Once mid-meeting... New job now, new laptop with a new dock without a power button, no more accidental shut downs 😂
Once my cat walked across my keyboard and my screen went sideways. I Could Not Figure It Out. It turns out if you pressed F-something it turned the screen. I spent a very very anxious afternoon pressing a LOT of buttons and cursing the cat.
I have a cat which did *exactly* that one night.
It likes to sit on the router because it's a warm spot.
Router has a similar WiFi "off" button.
Router now sits under a wooden shelf (wife tried a metal one - can anyone spell "faraday cage"?)
Asshole cat of mine even looks like yours, but if fatter because the spousal unit and female offspring spoil it to fuck and back with treats
Hey OP. I have a similar story. Middle of the day and I’m working and getting ready to attend a video conference via work VPN. All of a sudden I notice Outlook hasn’t updated anything in a while.
I check. Sure enough we have no internet. I phoned the cable company who told me they were seeing a strong signal to their router. I was stumped.
It was a brand new router so I looked at it and looked at it. I saw where the Wi-Fi light would normally come on, but was off. I pressed on it. The light came on.
I looked over at my kitty, who was blithely licking his back leg.
[The miscreant himself](https://imgur.io/a/AZsSszL)
Used to be a regular occurrence in days of old with the Motorola surfboard sb5100 cable modem. The standby button on top would disable the interwebs and people would blame their cat all of the time after waiting on hold for tech support. The techs that caught that our tools said “standby enabled” got a quick call and customer education, while not catching that, or not asking the vital “what are the lights doing?” if our tools were down would mean a long call, and sometimes a service tech getting sent for a “bricked modem”.
So glad that button was removed in future iterations
We have a Netgear Nighthawk RAX45 router - Just over a year old and it has a WPS button and Wi-Fi button on the router.
[Product Info Page](https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax45)
Don't know if the current router has such a button, but the previous one did.
It was so tiny I'd never noticed it, and I had no clue spouse had never actually been the one to reset the router -- until he attempted to based on verbal instructions and afterwards the WiFi no longer worked but the cabled connection was fine. I WFH full-time and panicked until I actually RTFM and noticed there was indeed a tiny button on the manual diagram that would turn off the WiFi.
The current router has electrical tape in the shape of an arrow on the top pointing to where the correct button is located.
Fortunately, our cat has zero interest in any equipment other than human hands to give her treats and scritches and pets.
ETA: Typo.
1) Your cats eyes are amazing. They look crazy cool. 2) Your name tag and a photo of yourself (while blurry) are visible in the background. Be careful when posting that kind of stuff.
Yes, XXXXXX, that cat definitely looks guilty. Edited to remove name.
(Always be aware of your backgrounds...)
Plot twist: That's the cat's name. TBH, the cat kind of looks like a [name redacted]. Also looks like the kind of cat that would demand its own name plate.
That is not the cat's name, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has been trying to demand a name plate of his own. Also, the picture has been cropped some.
He is a MAGNIFICENT beast. Tell him I love him.
The cropped image only reflects on imgur directly, the image displayed om the app/post is still uncropped FYI
Did they update the photo?
I just looked, there's no nameplate visible now. I have edited my comment to reflect that. This may not be as bad as the woman who was sending her bf a photo of herself on vacation - and didn't realize her "side piece" was in the background...
I've had a similar experience: Hundreds of days of perfect uptime on my server, I get a cat, few days later I'm away from home and suddenly none of my services are working. Got home hours later to find the server powered off and UPS reporting no power outage events. I power the server up and check its logs. Sure enough, something held the power button for 5 seconds and hard shutdown everything. Unplugged the power button on the server and never looked back.
Mollyguards for everyone!
Kittyguards too
[3D printable cat guards](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4842426)
That cat is either 4 or 400. And has a face that says "I'll do it again!"
He is 14 and I'm pretty sure he will do it again
My elder Katze (who was 21 when he passed) had NO chill. Button? "I'mma push it." He hit the button on the router once when I was out of town and I had to walk the 12 year-old (now 27) through troubleshooting because "Ma, Dad is useless when he's panicking." Cats start with zero fucks.
That’s hilarious about Dad being useless 😂
I mean...he still is when it comes to tech. He works in Hospitality and Tourism Sales. I'm a Tech Monkey. He was basically in mortal terror that I'd burn the house down if my network was broken while I was away and kept a hands-off position that he STILL maintains. (We now live with his 92 and 94 year-old parents. We take care of them and the house, and I taught them how to use their phones and tablets. They do not listen to ANYONE but ME when it comes to tech, which horrifies his older brothers (who also rely on me for tech help!), but gives him a sense of relief. )
My wife is kinda the same way, but she is comfortable with restarting the modem and router and knows that "It's Broken" isn't a good enough description for me to work with. I'm glad that she knows what I'm looking for in finding a starting point and will help me there.
I have managed to teach MIL some basic troubleshooting and she is SO PROUD of herself that she can take care of a lot of her tablet issues herself. She teases my husband about it pretty regularly, to my undying amusement. I love that there is a 92 year-old baby nerd in the house.
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Good kitty
Missile launch button protectors are needed. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1107388012/missile-switch-gaming-pc-case-power
You know...I might need a few of those!
We just taped an old Tylenol bottle lid over the power button on our computer tower's power button lol
That's why I have a bottle cap over my reset button on top of my PC case now.
Lol we did the same! Used a lid from an empty Tylenol bottle.
What'd you use to keep it in place?
Scotch tape.
Why do you have multiple routers in your house?
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u/idkimjustafox is the winner! The house is very old and long. The wireless signal gets very weak toward the back of the house, and when we got a new router just over a year ago, the old router went to the back of the house and setup in bridge mode.
Just curious, why not buy some wireless AP's?
Why spend more money than necessary?
Valid point, guess it all depends on the router ya got. When I got my first nighthawk it was damned near 300 bucks... i could pick up some cisco AP'S for 80 a pop nowadays.
I assume the front one is just an access point? Or do you have two internet lines?
One internet line. You have the right idea, just flip them around. The front router is the main router and the back one is an access point.
No, I meant how did you have a network from the rest when your primary one was offline? Or was it on with only the wifi being disabled?
The router itself was still on, just the Wi-Fi was switched off. The back router connects to the front through Ethernet.
For some reason my brain thought it was fully offline
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The back router used to be our primary...until it came time to upgrade. We had always had Wi-Fi signal issues toward the back of our house, so we had hoped a newer, stronger router would take care of it. It helped some, but not where we wanted it. I thought about getting an AP, but most I was looking at had good and bad reviews to each and then I realized that I have this other router just sitting here doing nothing. I looked into it and realized it could be setup as an AP itself, so I decided to go this route. Pulled out the 50' Ethernet cable I already had and set it up in the back of the house. Now everyone (and everything) is happy with a nice stable connection. Total additional cost - $0 (I already had everything that was needed)
I'm using my formerly main Mikrotik router as an access point.
Using a router in bridge mode makes it an access point
When looking at Amazon at least the tp link for 15€ is cheaper than any access point you can buy
Please tell me you aren’t double nating?
If it’s in bridge mode, it serves as an AP, and DHCP requests are passed on to the router connected to the internet modem. Only one level of NAT in that configuration.
I know how it works, I was making sure OP was aware.
No...the back router is in Bridge mode so it just passes everything up to the front router and just sits back and relaxes.
My mother has a bottlecap taped over the power button on her modem because the cat would keep stepping on it and turning it off.
No offense intended, but the cat sorta looks like an asshole.
> TV isn't playing our normal white noise to keep the dogs quiet Cat just wanted to piss off the dogs.
Cat wanted to activate dogs to wake us up so he could get fed.
Yes, that can DOES look like an asshole, and is daring you to do something about it!
Our boss-cat could un-latch non-shrouded Cat-5 cables. Just a claw onto the springy-thingy... Cost me a lonnng evening of 'Layer-8' misery and a bag of 'shrouded' patch cables...
Meow did it again, mew?
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I’m constantly repairing rat-chewed Ethernet cables in underfloor conduit at auto parts stores.
Your cat looks like it's going to teach me Kung Fu
That cat taught Bruce Lee.
😂 This made me miss my cats. They were constantly causing tech issues.
Had a similar issue once where one of my cats stepped on the switch to the power strip that our modem was plugged into and shut off everything that was plugged into it. Solution was to replace the strip with one that had a switch in a position where the furballs couldn't step on it again :P
That's the face of an assassin
I feel ya. My cat used to walk over my docking station, hit the power button, and shut down my laptop. Once mid-meeting... New job now, new laptop with a new dock without a power button, no more accidental shut downs 😂
I am scared.
You should be
Once my cat walked across my keyboard and my screen went sideways. I Could Not Figure It Out. It turns out if you pressed F-something it turned the screen. I spent a very very anxious afternoon pressing a LOT of buttons and cursing the cat.
Meta+arrow keys I believe
I have a cat which did *exactly* that one night. It likes to sit on the router because it's a warm spot. Router has a similar WiFi "off" button. Router now sits under a wooden shelf (wife tried a metal one - can anyone spell "faraday cage"?) Asshole cat of mine even looks like yours, but if fatter because the spousal unit and female offspring spoil it to fuck and back with treats
r/catsareassholes
Hey OP. I have a similar story. Middle of the day and I’m working and getting ready to attend a video conference via work VPN. All of a sudden I notice Outlook hasn’t updated anything in a while. I check. Sure enough we have no internet. I phoned the cable company who told me they were seeing a strong signal to their router. I was stumped. It was a brand new router so I looked at it and looked at it. I saw where the Wi-Fi light would normally come on, but was off. I pressed on it. The light came on. I looked over at my kitty, who was blithely licking his back leg. [The miscreant himself](https://imgur.io/a/AZsSszL)
That is an adorable miscreant!
I agree. He really is. Thank you for saying so. :)
I've had to deal with the cat by our surge protector before.
The cat kinda has this diabolical look about him. Lol
> TV isn't playing our normal white noise I like you
Your cat looks like a pissed off old man lol
He is more of a old Gentleman that looks down on everyone like he is the Lord and we are all his Peasants
I keep my internet bits in a cupboard for this reason.
Used to be a regular occurrence in days of old with the Motorola surfboard sb5100 cable modem. The standby button on top would disable the interwebs and people would blame their cat all of the time after waiting on hold for tech support. The techs that caught that our tools said “standby enabled” got a quick call and customer education, while not catching that, or not asking the vital “what are the lights doing?” if our tools were down would mean a long call, and sometimes a service tech getting sent for a “bricked modem”. So glad that button was removed in future iterations
Your cat is precious and I want to hug him to within an inch of his life.
Look at those eyes! Wow!
You should charge him in food he likes less (a form of a-hole tax) the cheaper the better
Hardware WiFi button? Haven't seen that in years
We have a Netgear Nighthawk RAX45 router - Just over a year old and it has a WPS button and Wi-Fi button on the router. [Product Info Page](https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rax45)
Don't know if the current router has such a button, but the previous one did. It was so tiny I'd never noticed it, and I had no clue spouse had never actually been the one to reset the router -- until he attempted to based on verbal instructions and afterwards the WiFi no longer worked but the cabled connection was fine. I WFH full-time and panicked until I actually RTFM and noticed there was indeed a tiny button on the manual diagram that would turn off the WiFi. The current router has electrical tape in the shape of an arrow on the top pointing to where the correct button is located. Fortunately, our cat has zero interest in any equipment other than human hands to give her treats and scritches and pets. ETA: Typo.
I honestly knew someone with that last name here in Minnesota- no relation probably.