August 24, 2004

• I’m so proud of myself.  I bought a wireless router yesterday so I
  couldget my computer online upstairs in my room but the signal strength
  was terrible.  Holding a connection was evidently, too much to
  ask. I even rewired the entire downstairs network to gain an extra 10
  feet or so closer and not much help.  I finally got it so it would
  sort of work but if anyone walked in front of my door or basically in
  the hallway in general, it would interfere with the connection. 

  So this morning I woke up because mhy computer was beeping at me cuz
  the Internet was down.  After resetting the router and modem and
  getting it back online, it looked like it was working but it was
  uber-slow. So I played around with it and still it was being just plain
  annoying.   I was really ready to box up the whole thing and
  bring it back to Staples as soon as a car was available for me. 
  But because I’m a genius, I decided to tinker with some settings in the
  router.  I throttled down the transfer rate from the default of
  best to 2 Mbps and now, it’s working superb! I’m going to try it out
  with some online games but I think I’ve nailed it down. In short, I’m
  the man.

  Song of the Day: Bowling for Soup – 1985

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