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Er, I mean WE replaced our Linksys

Posted By: Misha on 2007-10-14
In Reply to: Netgear replaced our Linksys. - Misha

with a Netgear router.

My first post wasn't very clear.




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Netgear replaced our Linksys.
The same thing was happening to me when I had Linksys, so DH replaced it with this Netgear one has never had the problem.

The cable company said the router was causing the problem.
Linksys.

I would highly recommend any Linksys router. (This is a Cisco product and they're the leading manufacturer of routers for both home and business use.) I had used Belkin before and nothing by problems.


As the other poster noted, have your work computer plugged directly into the router; others can go wireless.


had same prob with Linksys... -sm
I had the same issues with the Linksys router that we bought. Couldn't connect to the company and couldn't do any file transfers. I gave that one away (couldn't find the receipt) and bought a Belkin router. It was a bit more expensive, but OH SO worth it!! I set the whole thing up in no time and with no help and no calls to tech support for the router...all just using the CD they sent. It has worked from day one without a hitch!! My suggestion: Trash the Linksys and get a Belkin. You won't regret it!
Linksys reboot
I found that I had to do this when my lovely charming neighbor was feeding off my wireless. It gives an IP conflict. Check you firewall settings for the wireless and try to keep you eyes on the blinking lights to be sure no one is feeding off your wireless. To catch them unplug the wireless and get a drink or something then plug it back in - if you do it too soon, the person feeding will just reconnect- let them think it is gone for the day.
My Linksys works great!!!
I just switched to Linksys about six months ago and it works wonderfully.
I would call Linksys, but be prepared...
Linksys tech support is in India. 
Agree with Cisco's Linksys
I bought a wireless G one on sale for $59 at Radio Shack and it works great. I didn't program it. I just plug it in when I want WIFI and it works great. It also stacks very nicely on my Cisco Ethernet Router.

Same here Linksys also. Works great..sm
and have never had any problems with it. I use it for a laptop and have a hard wired desktop pc. My daughter also runs off the Linksys and has had no problems.
As far as being replaced by VR
pitching it to the larger institutions.  These so-called American companies are just as much to blame for facilities/physicians going with VR.  If you really think about it, the national can pitch VR at a pretty low rate since they have editors/QA to do it for 3 cpl and at the most what 5 cpl.  If you are doing VR, you are probably just as much part of the problem.  Of course as an independent you probably could not handle an account for a hospital by yourself, so you would have to hire MTs, hence a company comes to form.  Larger companies have more capital and can market their product (platforms).  It is not just India taking this market over, it is the large American companies as well taking the pie from the little guy.  You also see posts of people gaining their own accounts still, so this tells me that not all physicians feed into the larger national/India deal.  Look at Diskriter, just as one example, they are practically begging people to come and work for them.  Look on any job board, VR/editing is what these companies are seeking, but they unfortunately only want to pay 5 cpl at the most, which is very sad.  Money maker if I've ever seen one.  Makes ya' wonder....       
Not when it's replaced by
VR or some off-shore worker.
I have never replaced my headset -

When I worked in someone else's office, rarely but occasionally a headset would/might break.  However, since being at home doing same work 10 years, I have never had to replace my headset (the one that came with a transcriber years ago); however, I have had to replace several transcribers over the MANY, MANY years and think I'm on my 3rd one now......finally got a Lanier (they are the best in my opinion for transcriber machines).



No wonder we're being replaced
Perhaps I'm just having a bad moment because I'm in the midst of a job hop, but I'm venting/ranting just a bit. On another board, a newbie MT writes a solitary paragraph, and in that one paragraph there are three errors, one a grammatical error, one a spelling error, and one misuse of a word that spellcheck would not have caught. If we can't show that we have an edge that VR doesn't, no wonder we're being eased out.

For the record, you ACCEPT not except a position. You PURSUE other offers, not persue. And when listing a grouping of people, English is polite and let's the other people go first- so it's my family and me, not me and my family.
I think she should have replaced the semicolon with a
comma and should have taken out the other comma you have in there.
Not totally replaced...only for Katrina
nm
Perhaps they meant replaced as in these companies
apparently have the mistaken belief they will be able to replace experienced, knowledgeable, skilled MTs with minimal wage proofers some day. I hope to be around to watch that catastrophe.
So ideally, how often should a keyboard be replaced?
I'm on of those who eats and drinks at my computer :)

I never considered this as a regular expense, maybe I wouldn't have shelled out for a wireless keyboard. Don't they have those vacuum/brush thingies that can clean keyboards?
No, they're not. Fan is getting ready to die. Disconnect it and have it replaced. nm
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Staff will be reduced and equipment not replaced
Care provider will attempt to maintain their income and will attempt this by reducing staff/overhead (that includes transcription by the way).

The medicare/medicaid patient should have copays that are reasonable.

Reasonable is the key word here. But there is a sense of urgency that is taking place due to the state of Social Security and the aging baby boomers who are beginning to retire, who will due to good medical care for a lifetime, perhaps live for 20 plus years on Medicare benefits.




Don't give anyone your MACROS... You ultimately will be replaced... sad... (sm)
but that's how docs work, at least some of them.
The electronic medical record has replaced MTs at my job..it's all over!

My job has been scanning all the medical records over to electronic medium and the doctors are now taking laptops in the exam room with them and typing in all the info, so basically, my job will be obselete once this transition is over. 


Our boss has been doing a comparison of the clinics who now have the electronic medical record--those docs went from dictating thousands of lines in a weekly period to less than 50!!!  Of course this is a tremendous difference and it's "lights out" for us MTs.  We've got about a good year before it's all done.


Have any of you been affected by this new technology?


P.S.  I didn't care so much anyhow...I hate this industry and this job, so I've been looking for other employment anyhow. 


 


 


I always thought that the reason CR wasn't replaced -sm
by tapes/videotape, recordings, etc. long ago, was that there was some major legal reason for having an actual live person there that could SEE and HEAR each participant in the case do the court reporting, and the same for depositions. Something about the veracity of the resulting printed document generated by a live CR, as opposed to one generated by a machine (that could be tampered with.)
I am so paranoid of being replaced with a lower wage employee.
dd
On a positive note, with dictators like these humans will never be replaced. sm
No VR program will ever perfect the ability to cut/paste, or add necessary punctuation to reports. There will always be a need for editors. Of course, it still doesn't alleviate the frustration of having to deal with either one, ASR or horrific dictators.
Can anywone recommend a good vacuum cleaner? My old one broke and has to be replaced. Thanks. NM
nm
I had a lot of trouble with static in my C-phone. I replaced the phone cord and that made a big

difference.  Also, have you tried a different headset?  Also someone told me one time that there is a microphone under your volume control on the right corner of the C-phone.  It's a tiny hole.  If you break off a Q-tip and stick that into the hole that will squelch a lot of background noise and that worked as well.  As far as getting your C-phone service, I heard that Dictaphone is "sunsetting" C-phones at the end of this year.  Meaning, they aren't going to service them anymore as they are considered an obsolete technology.  So, I would contact Dictaphone and see what your options are.


I know very little about Lanier equipment.  I've not used it as extensively as Dictaphone.  Is there a local appliance repair place in your area?  You might ask one of those places to take a look at your equipment and see what they think.  Kinda scary, cause they could do more harm than good, but maybe worth a shot.


Not much help, I know.  But I thought I would share what tiny bit of obscure knowledge I do have.