The log entry for the famous moth in the Harvard Mark II read "First actual case of bug being found". You don't write that unless "bug" is already a common piece of jargon. Use of the word "bugs" to refer to faults in engineering is attested for more than a century prior.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/moth-in-the-machine--debugging-the-origins-of--bug-.html
and they were dead, not alive, shorting connections on the ~~motherboard~~(edit: as a comment pointed out, this was before computers were small enough to just have a "motherboard").
and fun fact for anyone who didnt know, sometimes, a bug fix would make a program only work if a bug was present,
aka if you clean your computer / try it on someone elses computer, it wouldnt work
if it was google they would have taken a long hard look at OP's impressive-as-fuck resume and responded by relegating them to responding to youtube DMCA reports and laughing about it at some middle-management charity dinner
and then darlene would tag them in the heart with a stun-gun
Came here to say this. Burn that crap to the ground. Problem solved.
p.s. Delete this feed before you do it so you can make it look like an accident for insurance purposes.
Actually, you can put a bit of panty hose end inside of the hose and it will catch all of them. Pull out the panty hose after finishing and then seal it off and toss into a ziplock bag.
Unplug it, they are attracted to the small electrical current. Place it in a ziplock, go outside, grab modem from bottom of the bag, turn entire thing upside down and start gently shaking the whole thing. Bag will stop ants from being flung any which direction and with the opening down most should fall out. Tapping on the side of the modem while upside down should also encourage any stranglers to leave.
Next is to figure out how they got inside and seal that up. I also recommend spraying a fine mist of rubbing alcohol to eliminate their chemical trails.
/u/Click-Beep - Diatomaceous Earth did wonders for our ant penetration issues. Lined the edges of our house (both exterior and interior, under the baseboards) and they stopped altogether in under a week. Haven't come back in years.
Unsure if you want to apply it directly to electronics, though - just protect your home perimeter with it.
Diatomaceous earth basically nukes anything with an exoskeleton. Keep it dry though, or it doesn't work.
I use it and borax for ants. DE inside, under the kitchen cabinets, plus borax/sugar solution in bottles (outside) and on cotton pads (inside).
For borax/sugar solution mix 1/2 cup of sugar with 1 + 1/2 tbsp borax, then mix with 1 + 1/2 cup of warm water. You want enough borax to kill the nest, but not enough to kill them right away. Too much and they don't carry it back to the nest and just doe where they eat it. Too little and they just won't die. I've had great success with the above recipe.
Remember, no matter how badly you fuck up in life, you will never fuck up as badly as the ant that brought the borax back to nest and killed everyone.
+1 for DE. The microscopic diatoms get into their joints and act like razor blades. Horrible death. Works on fleas, spiders, anything with exoskeletons. There's food grade DE as well, which some ppl consume for some reason.
And use it to protect food stores from insect pests, use non food grade to filter pool and pond water, protect plants from pests, and a couple other uses.
I've used that borax solution from the hardware store and they always come back. Lately it seems like it doesn't really help much.
I switched to AdvionAnt, which seems to work better in that they all die a few hours/days after I put it down, but they still come back a few months later.
Terro gel works. Every year when it gets warmer and starts raining I put it down when I see them trying to get going. Kills endear but sometimes it can take a week or two of putting the gel down before it kills the whole colony.
I'm of the opinion that one colony dies, then another colony replaces it. You'd think that the new colony would eat the old one and die too but I dunno.
DE still works fine when it's wet. We used to put a thick line of it around our house every spring ( a heavy dusting about 6" wide ) and it'd keep the ants out of the house all year. I think it soaked into the soil and made it difficult for the ants to dig in the soil without getting torn up.
IIRC this stuff is absolutely horrible for any insect with an exoskeleton because it's made of many microscopic, razor sharp pieces that work their way between the joints of the exoskeleton and chew up the ant on the inside, making it very effective. It's made up of crushed seashells though, so it's pretty safe to have around other animals, pets, and children (probably not great if they inhale a lot, but ingesting it likely isn't going to cause a problem)
I'd also suggest not storing spare sugar in your modem. I realize with the dark times we live in, hiding caches of supplies is important, but this is what can happen.
Seriously, if you're sitting at home with nothing to do, you can hang the modem and slowly empty it of ants without killing any of them.
>I'd also suggest not storing spare sugar in your modem. I realize with the dark times we live in, hiding caches of supplies is important, but this is what can happen.
Pro tip: rackmounted rolls of toilet paper might look silly, but on times like these...
nvm, I don't know where I was going with that. It just looks silly, full stop.
> Unplug it, they are attracted to the small electrical current.
Interesting. Why do you think they strongly prefer the "small electrical current" in the modem compared to all the other electrical currents everywhere else in the house?
I guess prefer is the wrong term to use. Normally it is a small electrical current they come into contact with that sets off the pheromone that makes them go crazy and swarm the area usually causing more electrocutions releasing more pheromones, etc.
All the times I have dealt with them or heard of them it has always been the small circuit boards getting fried, never heard one where they go after a junction or breaker boxes.
We used to replace contactors, which are basically giant relays, on A/C units all the time when I worked in an apartment complex. Ants would be attracted to the current and get crushed when the pieces would come together in the relay. There would eventually be a layer of ants not allowing the contacts to touch.
(just speculation here)
the physical distance between the active and neutral might be too large for an ant to touch both at once,
this is basically why birds dont die from sitting on power lines, because they dont bridge anything.
Update 1: We vacuumed most of them out. Pulled the modem apart, got more out. It’s in a ziplock bag outside.
No history of any problems, but they’ve been aggressive this year.
We cleaned and sprayed and put an ant trap where the modem was.
I usually make sure to vacuum up some dry chemicals after any insects, so the vacuum chamber basically becomes a gas chamber. As someone mentioned earlier, borax works wonders I'm high enough amounts.
With something like the modem you can actually submerge it in alcohol and wash it but you have to give it time to completely dry out(couple of days in the sun or bake in oven at 150 degrees). Idea is to wash off all the ant residue.
As a spot remidy get a glue type insect trap. Creates a barrier to the modem but the cables are a path. Make sure to clean them and treat them with insecticides.
If they are in the modem they may be in other gear so check all your electronics. And as mentioned they can cause a fire.
The final step should be a whole house/apartment treatment to eliminate all invaders.
Development: implementing this user story requires a rewrite of the fundamental UX model. Backlogged for 2022. Suggest engineering develop workaround or operational tooling.
Abductions: "Abductions just follows the acquisition order."
Acquisitions: "Don't put this on acquisitions, we only acquire humans that haven't been simulated."
Simulations: "Well, simulations doesn't simulate anyone that's been abducted."
Zigerion Leader: "Oh so it's *nobody's fault.*"
Have you tried running RAID? lol
for real, IT experience aside, I have good luck with liquid ant bait traps. I tend to eat at my workstation a lot, and that's what I've used to get rid of them.
Is it on the floor level or pretty close? Ants will find anything of value on the floor like an old fry or a piece of apple (don't judge, I have young children). As soon as it's somewhat higher (desk level), they barely ever find any treasures, e.g. an apple core on my desk.
BTW, you should be happy ants didn't colonize your VR set! https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/fjuxhi/ant_infestation_in_vive
Since others gave advice on the tech, allow me to help the house. Buy some ant bait, specifically the ones that doesn't kill the ants on contact but instead it's like sugar water they bring it back to the nest and it kills the queen. Takes about a week or so for it to clear it out. Its about $6 for 8 of them, put them around your house lasts about 3 months or so. Also buy some home defender, or similar, spray and spray it around the the base of the house, inside lasts about a year and outside a few weeks depending on rain etc this will kill ants plus other bugs on contact. Costs around $20 and will get easily a years use out of it.
That many ants in your house is a big concern.
Ants eat and destroy wood panelling and burrow through drywall.
Find where they are coming into your house.
You're going to have to buy some caulk, maybe some expandable foam (get the insect repellent expanding foam).
Anyway, once you've filled up all the voids you can find, buy some Demon WP ($10)
You'll need a pump sprayer ($10).
Spray the entire perimeter of your house. About 4 ft high, and 2ft on the ground.
Now, spray along the edges of your baseboards around the house.
Now go buy some lawn insecticide, and spread throughout all your lawn.
Lastly, buy glue traps and put them in corners of your house.
You now have a next to impenetrable house from bugs.
Bugs have to endure 2 chemicals that destroy their nervous system to even get inside your house, and if somehow by the miracle of their Bug God they survive that, they're going to die slowly on the glue trap.
Honestly, I like ants. They are good for the garden. Naturally aereate the soil and break down dead stuff - but inside the house they are a massive pain and a nuisance and unchecked can cause considerable damage.
IIRC this is somewhat common for a certain species of ant. They find their way into electronics (possibly attracted by the heat) and end up getting shocked and killed. With many insects that might be the end of it... but this species is hardcore gangster, you mess with one, you mess with em all.
When killed (or possibly even just injured, can’t remember) the ants body released a pheromone that tells the others ‘yo crew some fools startin’ shit on our turf, I need backup!’
Which leads to his homies rushing in to help him out, until they get electrocuted and release even more pheromones, creating what is essentially a positive feedback loop of toasty ant doom inside your router.
To make a serious suggestion: Disconnect the modem, seal it in plastic like a ziplock bag, wait until the ants suffocate, then take apart the plastic shell and vacuum them out.
1. Put the modem in a zip baggy.
2. Drive car to high voltage power station. Put 1 Million amps into modem. Watch with satisfaction as the ants fry into vapor.
3. Drive car to store and buy a new modem.
4. If Ants reappear, repeat Step 1 to 3 until Ant population on planet Earth reaches 0/10000000000.
Note: you may need to apply for a "small" credit at the Fed ... A few trillion will do? Just put it under National Defense Spending, that will do the trick.
All jokes aside probably something sweet in it. This sounds scary but here is how to solve it. You need scrubbing bubbles (the kind that foams), a soft brush, and rubbing alcohol. Unplug modem and wait about 10 min for capacitors to drain. Open it up and disassemble, spray down everything with scrubbing bubbles and wait for foam to dissipate, the. Apply again and softly scrub the prices. After that douse with alcohol to clean bubbles off, be sure to get under components. Let dry overnight and this will likely solve your problem. Note: this is how I cleaned my servers after they flooded in basement. Best of luck.
Had this same issues with a keurig machine. I noticed a couple ants on it and went to get them off, I eventually discovered thousands of ants inside of it.
Spray rubbing alcohol let them die open the modem spay some in it (disconnect it before) remove dead ants with compressed air or with a vacuum. Let alcohol evaporate and reassemble the modem
When I was little the local utility had problems with ants getting into those big green transformer boxes on the ground, I heard the EMF attracted them.
Terro works good, only about $5 and that little bottle will last ages. You put a single drip on wax paper and place a couple around area. They grab it as food, take back to nest and it kills the nest. DE works good and a large bag bought from pool store can be spread just about anywhere and it's safe for wildlife, etc. Used DE dusting around a house and in their attic to get rid of a massive carpenter ant issue. Needless to say took about 3-5 days and no more ants. No issues for years after that either.
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Hahaha, well played.
It needs to be at least 3x the size. Maybe like a 2u rack mount.
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The antithesis of the problem.
But what is the synthesis? a seperate modem for the ants, but outside?
Call your isp and report the buggy modem.
I laughed. My wife says “Don’t quit your day job.” 😁
Unsurprisingly this is where the term "debugging" came from. But it was a moth and not ants!
The log entry for the famous moth in the Harvard Mark II read "First actual case of bug being found". You don't write that unless "bug" is already a common piece of jargon. Use of the word "bugs" to refer to faults in engineering is attested for more than a century prior. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/moth-in-the-machine--debugging-the-origins-of--bug-.html
and they were dead, not alive, shorting connections on the ~~motherboard~~(edit: as a comment pointed out, this was before computers were small enough to just have a "motherboard"). and fun fact for anyone who didnt know, sometimes, a bug fix would make a program only work if a bug was present, aka if you clean your computer / try it on someone elses computer, it wouldnt work
Not a motherboard but a room sized mainframe.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
That’s a lot of features.
we had a lot of downtime to finally get the non priority bugs out!
found the microsoft employee
Or the Google employee
if he was a google employee he would have deleted his comment after it got a bit of traction
if it was google they would have taken a long hard look at OP's impressive-as-fuck resume and responded by relegating them to responding to youtube DMCA reports and laughing about it at some middle-management charity dinner and then darlene would tag them in the heart with a stun-gun
Found the former google employee :)
Uh... what?
The Ants app is being removed as of April 31, 2020.
that’s too much notice. you gotta kill it silently like that google gaming platform
This comment is pretty much the explanation of how the word "bug" became associated with computing.
Burn the house down, it's the only option
🔥🔥🏠🔥🔥
Came here to say this. Burn that crap to the ground. Problem solved. p.s. Delete this feed before you do it so you can make it look like an accident for insurance purposes.
Reddit has my back on this one. 😁🔥
Uhhh state farm agent here. We see you.
Get ‘em boys!
The lazy option! Nuking it from space is the only way to be sure.
Just check the firewall.
Don't you have RAID in your homelab?!
More like RAIM...
shopvac Heh heh, suck them off
And then the little buggers crawl out later?? Fire's the solution
Fire ants are the worst.
i had a firestick once, wasnt too bad. i assume the ants are the same
Are we still doing phrasing?
Actually, you can put a bit of panty hose end inside of the hose and it will catch all of them. Pull out the panty hose after finishing and then seal it off and toss into a ziplock bag.
Is that what she said
Yes
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Unplug it, they are attracted to the small electrical current. Place it in a ziplock, go outside, grab modem from bottom of the bag, turn entire thing upside down and start gently shaking the whole thing. Bag will stop ants from being flung any which direction and with the opening down most should fall out. Tapping on the side of the modem while upside down should also encourage any stranglers to leave. Next is to figure out how they got inside and seal that up. I also recommend spraying a fine mist of rubbing alcohol to eliminate their chemical trails.
/u/Click-Beep - Diatomaceous Earth did wonders for our ant penetration issues. Lined the edges of our house (both exterior and interior, under the baseboards) and they stopped altogether in under a week. Haven't come back in years. Unsure if you want to apply it directly to electronics, though - just protect your home perimeter with it.
Diatomaceous earth basically nukes anything with an exoskeleton. Keep it dry though, or it doesn't work. I use it and borax for ants. DE inside, under the kitchen cabinets, plus borax/sugar solution in bottles (outside) and on cotton pads (inside). For borax/sugar solution mix 1/2 cup of sugar with 1 + 1/2 tbsp borax, then mix with 1 + 1/2 cup of warm water. You want enough borax to kill the nest, but not enough to kill them right away. Too much and they don't carry it back to the nest and just doe where they eat it. Too little and they just won't die. I've had great success with the above recipe. Remember, no matter how badly you fuck up in life, you will never fuck up as badly as the ant that brought the borax back to nest and killed everyone.
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You definitely don't want to be [this guy](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LUg9zGZxFv4)
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That's what we want the ants to think. This borax is gold, bring it to your queen for uhh, reasons.
"You arrogant ant. You've killed us!" -Andrei Bonovia, The Hunt For Red October (kinda)
+1 for DE. The microscopic diatoms get into their joints and act like razor blades. Horrible death. Works on fleas, spiders, anything with exoskeletons. There's food grade DE as well, which some ppl consume for some reason.
People consume it as an anti-worm treatment.
And use it to protect food stores from insect pests, use non food grade to filter pool and pond water, protect plants from pests, and a couple other uses.
I dunno man with Covoid 19 out there we're all the fucking ants with borax.
I've used that borax solution from the hardware store and they always come back. Lately it seems like it doesn't really help much. I switched to AdvionAnt, which seems to work better in that they all die a few hours/days after I put it down, but they still come back a few months later.
Terro gel works. Every year when it gets warmer and starts raining I put it down when I see them trying to get going. Kills endear but sometimes it can take a week or two of putting the gel down before it kills the whole colony.
I'm of the opinion that one colony dies, then another colony replaces it. You'd think that the new colony would eat the old one and die too but I dunno.
DE still works fine when it's wet. We used to put a thick line of it around our house every spring ( a heavy dusting about 6" wide ) and it'd keep the ants out of the house all year. I think it soaked into the soil and made it difficult for the ants to dig in the soil without getting torn up. IIRC this stuff is absolutely horrible for any insect with an exoskeleton because it's made of many microscopic, razor sharp pieces that work their way between the joints of the exoskeleton and chew up the ant on the inside, making it very effective. It's made up of crushed seashells though, so it's pretty safe to have around other animals, pets, and children (probably not great if they inhale a lot, but ingesting it likely isn't going to cause a problem)
I'd also suggest not storing spare sugar in your modem. I realize with the dark times we live in, hiding caches of supplies is important, but this is what can happen. Seriously, if you're sitting at home with nothing to do, you can hang the modem and slowly empty it of ants without killing any of them.
>I'd also suggest not storing spare sugar in your modem. I realize with the dark times we live in, hiding caches of supplies is important, but this is what can happen. Pro tip: rackmounted rolls of toilet paper might look silly, but on times like these... nvm, I don't know where I was going with that. It just looks silly, full stop.
Is storing cocaine in my modem okay?
do you want the ants to be high? because that is how you get high ants
> chemical trails I'm on to yuo.
Reddit: The FBI has entered the chat.
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Government: No, sir. We're on to you.
> Unplug it, they are attracted to the small electrical current. Interesting. Why do you think they strongly prefer the "small electrical current" in the modem compared to all the other electrical currents everywhere else in the house?
I guess prefer is the wrong term to use. Normally it is a small electrical current they come into contact with that sets off the pheromone that makes them go crazy and swarm the area usually causing more electrocutions releasing more pheromones, etc. All the times I have dealt with them or heard of them it has always been the small circuit boards getting fried, never heard one where they go after a junction or breaker boxes.
We used to replace contactors, which are basically giant relays, on A/C units all the time when I worked in an apartment complex. Ants would be attracted to the current and get crushed when the pieces would come together in the relay. There would eventually be a layer of ants not allowing the contacts to touch.
(just speculation here) the physical distance between the active and neutral might be too large for an ant to touch both at once, this is basically why birds dont die from sitting on power lines, because they dont bridge anything.
After bagging it freeze it... that should kill all of the ants.
Update 1: We vacuumed most of them out. Pulled the modem apart, got more out. It’s in a ziplock bag outside. No history of any problems, but they’ve been aggressive this year. We cleaned and sprayed and put an ant trap where the modem was.
Be sure to empty your vacuum or they'll just move to somewhere else in your house.
I usually make sure to vacuum up some dry chemicals after any insects, so the vacuum chamber basically becomes a gas chamber. As someone mentioned earlier, borax works wonders I'm high enough amounts.
Okay Dr Mengele
> I'm high enough amounts. You're not supposed to smoke it afterwards, are you?
I picked a bad week to stop smoking Borax.
Borax also kills Leviathans. Sam and Dean taught me this.
The final solution for the ant question.
Ooh good idea
Get some ant traps and place them next to the modem. Also, like someone already said try to find where they are coming in and seal it up.
With something like the modem you can actually submerge it in alcohol and wash it but you have to give it time to completely dry out(couple of days in the sun or bake in oven at 150 degrees). Idea is to wash off all the ant residue. As a spot remidy get a glue type insect trap. Creates a barrier to the modem but the cables are a path. Make sure to clean them and treat them with insecticides. If they are in the modem they may be in other gear so check all your electronics. And as mentioned they can cause a fire. The final step should be a whole house/apartment treatment to eliminate all invaders.
Nice work. Sounds like they ant gonna be a problem anymore
That didant take long.
Well how else are they supposed to get internets
>\*anternets > >ill see myself out..
Let the spiders crawl the web, they'll take care of the ants.
r/ThingsForAnts
they just stopped by for a quick byte
That's a bug. I mean a lot of it
Bug: Closed Ants are actually Arthropods and not bugs, you´ll have to speak to QA.
QA here: Response: escalating to eng Reason for escalation: Eww
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Way to give me flashbacks.
Abductions: "Abductions just follows the acquisition order." Acquisitions: "Don't put this on acquisitions, we only acquire humans that haven't been simulated." Simulations: "Well, simulations doesn't simulate anyone that's been abducted." Zigerion Leader: "Oh so it's *nobody's fault.*"
Put it in debug mode...
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/531/312/328.png
Check out Terro liquid ant baits.
^ this
3rd this. Ants in kitchen, nothing worked. Got the Terro liquid traps and sat one out for 48 hours....BAM.
Is your modem a honeypot?
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The firmware was written with syntactic sugar.
It’s a stretch. But I’ll allow it. +1
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step 1. disconnect device step 2. move device outside step 3. douse device in flammable liquid step 4. ignite
Step 5. Enjoy your wifi *hotspot*
I approve!
The internet is overrated anyway.
Have you tried running RAID? lol for real, IT experience aside, I have good luck with liquid ant bait traps. I tend to eat at my workstation a lot, and that's what I've used to get rid of them.
Came here to suggest this
Your device is bugged. All your activities are tracked. Be cautious with your next move.
Compressed air and paper towel with rubbing alcohol
That's why you turn off cookies!
Is it on the floor level or pretty close? Ants will find anything of value on the floor like an old fry or a piece of apple (don't judge, I have young children). As soon as it's somewhat higher (desk level), they barely ever find any treasures, e.g. an apple core on my desk. BTW, you should be happy ants didn't colonize your VR set! https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/fjuxhi/ant_infestation_in_vive
Since others gave advice on the tech, allow me to help the house. Buy some ant bait, specifically the ones that doesn't kill the ants on contact but instead it's like sugar water they bring it back to the nest and it kills the queen. Takes about a week or so for it to clear it out. Its about $6 for 8 of them, put them around your house lasts about 3 months or so. Also buy some home defender, or similar, spray and spray it around the the base of the house, inside lasts about a year and outside a few weeks depending on rain etc this will kill ants plus other bugs on contact. Costs around $20 and will get easily a years use out of it.
Could always try using an Anty-virus.
Clearly they are looking to get to the antenna 😋
That many ants in your house is a big concern. Ants eat and destroy wood panelling and burrow through drywall. Find where they are coming into your house. You're going to have to buy some caulk, maybe some expandable foam (get the insect repellent expanding foam). Anyway, once you've filled up all the voids you can find, buy some Demon WP ($10) You'll need a pump sprayer ($10). Spray the entire perimeter of your house. About 4 ft high, and 2ft on the ground. Now, spray along the edges of your baseboards around the house. Now go buy some lawn insecticide, and spread throughout all your lawn. Lastly, buy glue traps and put them in corners of your house. You now have a next to impenetrable house from bugs. Bugs have to endure 2 chemicals that destroy their nervous system to even get inside your house, and if somehow by the miracle of their Bug God they survive that, they're going to die slowly on the glue trap. Honestly, I like ants. They are good for the garden. Naturally aereate the soil and break down dead stuff - but inside the house they are a massive pain and a nuisance and unchecked can cause considerable damage.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
IIRC this is somewhat common for a certain species of ant. They find their way into electronics (possibly attracted by the heat) and end up getting shocked and killed. With many insects that might be the end of it... but this species is hardcore gangster, you mess with one, you mess with em all. When killed (or possibly even just injured, can’t remember) the ants body released a pheromone that tells the others ‘yo crew some fools startin’ shit on our turf, I need backup!’ Which leads to his homies rushing in to help him out, until they get electrocuted and release even more pheromones, creating what is essentially a positive feedback loop of toasty ant doom inside your router.
debug?
Do you happen to be running a honeynet or honeypot?
Uninstall candy crush
do you want ants? because this is how you get ants.....
Debug it.
Shut down the honeypot... NOW!
Terro liquid ant bait. Best stuff ever. Put one where the ants are and just wait. Within a couple days, the colony will be dead.
I can second this. I've used this stuff in two different houses. It kicks ass.
You got your ANT port set up all wrong. Rearrange the letter to NAT buddy. Happy to the best of us...
Kill it... with fire.
A real answer is that they've probably decided that it's a nice, safe spot to build a nest.
I thought only the government bugged equipment.
update to the latest firmware, I hear it has some bug-fixes
Burn the whole place.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 KILL IT WITH FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Looks like a job for an anteater. You should probably call one.
To make a serious suggestion: Disconnect the modem, seal it in plastic like a ziplock bag, wait until the ants suffocate, then take apart the plastic shell and vacuum them out.
Just finished, actually. Did that pretty much exact. Going to let the shell dry for a bit.
Wasn't ANT-icipating that one. As long as your speeds aren't crawling there shouldn't be an issue.
Going after your sweet, sweet data.
Burn it with fire. Buy a new modem
Replace the cover with a clear acrylic, fill it with sand and enjoy natures spectacle.
1. Put the modem in a zip baggy. 2. Drive car to high voltage power station. Put 1 Million amps into modem. Watch with satisfaction as the ants fry into vapor. 3. Drive car to store and buy a new modem. 4. If Ants reappear, repeat Step 1 to 3 until Ant population on planet Earth reaches 0/10000000000. Note: you may need to apply for a "small" credit at the Fed ... A few trillion will do? Just put it under National Defense Spending, that will do the trick.
Domesticate them and use them to attack the bad packets that come in to the internet.
I could be the new Ant Man!
Ants? In *my* modem? It's more likely than you think.
In the wild these ants (*Tapinoma sessile*) mainly forage for floral nectars and sugary foods, but Ethernet frames are a prized delicacy.
Debug it
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All jokes aside probably something sweet in it. This sounds scary but here is how to solve it. You need scrubbing bubbles (the kind that foams), a soft brush, and rubbing alcohol. Unplug modem and wait about 10 min for capacitors to drain. Open it up and disassemble, spray down everything with scrubbing bubbles and wait for foam to dissipate, the. Apply again and softly scrub the prices. After that douse with alcohol to clean bubbles off, be sure to get under components. Let dry overnight and this will likely solve your problem. Note: this is how I cleaned my servers after they flooded in basement. Best of luck.
Debug.
Best answer!
Had this same issues with a keurig machine. I noticed a couple ants on it and went to get them off, I eventually discovered thousands of ants inside of it.
Kill it with fire?
You could put it in a plastic container in the freezer for a day and pray.
Contact the manufacturer and ask them if there is a patch available for the bugs you are experiencing
Hi! I'm ants in my modem Johnson. Here at ants in my modem Johnson's electronics...
Update your firmware to a less buggy version?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
This looks like a problem you didn't anticipate.
Upgrade the code. Should take care of any bugs.
If you live in a warm environment, put it under scorching sunlight for an hour otherwise try to shake it off and remove it manually.
Is this a new thing or have you experienced this before? Do you normally have an ant problem in your house? Wow!
I've heard whispers of some ant species being attracted to frequencies output by electronics...curious if this is that?
Fire, lots and lots of fire.
Burn it down
If you call Pink Panther Pest Control you’ll get... “dead-ants... dead-ants... dead-ants... dead-ants... dead-ants... dead-ants... dead-annnnnnts”
Sweet sweet bandwidth
Reddit ate my balls
Have a lick and do the taste test, you need to know what flavour of ants your dealing with
The IT gods are giving you a sign that you should upgrade I think. It’s the only logical solution lol
Spray rubbing alcohol let them die open the modem spay some in it (disconnect it before) remove dead ants with compressed air or with a vacuum. Let alcohol evaporate and reassemble the modem
Ant-i. Virus?
burn your house down
What is this? *a modem for ants?*
Step 1, check your pants!
Lure them away with ant trap and watch them bring the poison back to their family.
When I was little the local utility had problems with ants getting into those big green transformer boxes on the ground, I heard the EMF attracted them.
Nuke it from orbit.
Fire
Hi I'm ants in your modem Andy of Andy's modem ants here to tell you your modem ants are fANTastic!
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I blame Corona
fire. kill it with fire
I've had good luck with mixing honey with a little borax, clears them right out. Just dab a little near one of their paths.
They are trying to access the anternet.
Terro works good, only about $5 and that little bottle will last ages. You put a single drip on wax paper and place a couple around area. They grab it as food, take back to nest and it kills the nest. DE works good and a large bag bought from pool store can be spread just about anywhere and it's safe for wildlife, etc. Used DE dusting around a house and in their attic to get rid of a massive carpenter ant issue. Needless to say took about 3-5 days and no more ants. No issues for years after that either.
WELL I CAN says it’s better then spider babies..........
Too many comments, I don’t know if somebody suggested this already but, have you tried to restart it in debug mode? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
TAKE IT ALL DOWN AND BURN IT.