Smart Tech Tips

I had a really hard time finding this gem for a client who recently had their motherboard’s ethernet port fry on them. This created quite a quandary for me. I could have installed a new ethernet card, reroute the modem to USB, or tell them to buy a new machine. I chose the USB route. They had Vista and the disk that came with the modem was very old. I searched up and down only to find sites that wanted me to install some sort of driver helper to detect my driver. This is just another spyware ploy and should be avoided.

Here is the link you’ll need.

http://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/download_ambit_usb_cable_modem_driver.html

I can’t actually point you to the exact download link because it changes from time to time to keep people like me from doing this. Therefore just read down the page and find ‘download ambit USB cable modem driver’. Click there and you should be greeted with a dialog box asking where to put usbdriver2.1.zip. Of course trying this on the machine that can’t get on the internet due to the problem in the first place posed a problem… ;/