I had an evil step-dad, my grounding consisted of sitting on a hard wood stool facing a wall ALL day for a specified amount of time.
Worse thing you can imagine, 2-weeks at a time!!!! arggggg THE MEMORIES are returning!!!!!
Of course I wasn't the most well behaved kid either ;)
Do you have any old boards, cards or drives laying around? Or any local pc store or repair shop may just give ya one. I've never bought any so I'm not sure who has them, maybe try radio shack?
Also the Trap that is on your line now sounds like a "Limited Basic" trap. All that does is give you the lowest amount af cable channels like 22 channels instead of 78 which is very common if the landlord is paying for the cable. This wouldn't have anything to do with the internet though, it...
I work for a Major Cable Company and the only filter that would have anything to do with the connection is a trap to keep internet subscribers from recieving video, it only lets in the modem signal. If you have a modem and got it from the cable company it SHOULD work.
Make sure the modem line...
My experience with PHPBB is the mods that are available, forum support and security patches can't be beat, they are awsome! I can't really think of anything I didn't like about. I used it for a few years at a golf site I used to run. After awhile I changed it to php nuke and used phpbb as a...