phenry

I just replaced my Xfinity router with the newest 2023 xFi router at the urging of Comcast. I have two 2022 Chromecast Google TV devices that as far as I can tell are identical. Before yesterday they both worked like a charm. Now, one works just fine and the other one won't connect no matter what I do. Ironically, the one that doesn't work is much closer to the wireless gateway than the one that does work.

I know from experience that if I contact Comcast they'll tell me it's Google's problem, and if I contact Google they'll tell me it's Comcast's problem. Any ideas about fixing this that don't involve descending into bureaucratic hell?

When I was a child in the 1970s I ran across a joke book that was clearly many decades older, and in that book was a joke to the effect of: "A young child was told to save his pennies in a special green box. When the green box was full he was to take it to his parents and they would give him dimes in exchange, which he stored in a yellow box. When the yellow box was full, he was to take all the dimes and put them in a red box in the basement. Many years later he learned that the red box was the gas meter."

Did homes of that era really have coin-operated gas meters? That seems really inefficient. As a lifelong aficionado of historic ephemera, I seem to recall seeing other articles and items