One aspect of technology that I’ve never been all that savvy with is networking. I’m doing well if I manage to get an ethernet connection up and running on one computer.
In our house at Kalgoorlie there is only one phone line with just two extensions. There was no way I wanted to install an extra line, or even another extension, to give the kids internet access. The solution was wireless.
The learning curve involved firstly buying a wireless router and setting it up on my laptop. I succeeded with that and made sure I enabled 128-bit security.
Dude’s computer doesn’t have an in-built wireless card, so I had to ponder a solution. I tried the cheap $25 option first, inserting a desktop wireless card. For whatever reason I couldn’t get the computer to recognise the hardware.
I could have persisted, but being time stressed I spent $100 instead buying a USB network card. It was much easier to install and it worked out of the box.
Fantastic. Dude and I are both on the internet now at the same time, using the same connection.
Twitter: delmerw
says:
Congrats on setting up the wireless and, especially, for taking the extra step and setting up security. It wasn’t that long ago that I had access to two other networks aside from my own. I was able to access the router’s setup page for one neighbor.
Twitter: mgorey
says:
I’ve heard some bad stories about people accessing neighbors’ networks. For the sake of a a few extra minutes in setting up it seems crazy not to.