Although I´m supposed to be a web developer, I always get all the IT problems of the entire county heading my way as well. Just to prove how awkward I can be I thought I´d put up my four favourite IT sayings instead of fixing PCs for people:
After pissing around for an hour or so I finally got my new ADSL modem/802.11g access point/router working. After going through the helpful setup programme a few times I thought, sod it I´m going advanced so fired up the web admin panel thing and started playing there.
After changing all the settings from the defaults (like the VCI from 35 to 38) I finally got it to give me a Force 9 IP address in the status window. Problem was that nothing would go through. All ping requests were coming up as Detination unreachable.
I headed back to the beginning to check I wasn´t doing something stupid and turns out I was. Instead of using PPPoA as you should for ADSL in the UK, I had left it on PPPoE. I changed this, restarted and the nice yellow "Internet" light came on router. Excellent!