Wireless-less
For the longest time I've been trying to get my laptop to work with the wireless network at home. Really the only thing on it is the kid's PC, but would like to use the laptop in other parts of the house and still get on the internet (you know, for research and porn. And researching porn). But the mutherfucking piece of shit just won't work. It just stops dead. Sometimes it sees there's a network, but it refuses to connect. I even went and bought a new PC card for it, because --I've always assumed--- the shitastic internal Dell one was, well, shitastic.
I've wrestled with this for about a week now and I'm very angry over the whole thing. I have to keep telling myself, the laptop is too expensive for you to put your fist through.
I can get it to work by forcing an IP down it's throat. But, I'm uncertain what happens when the cable modem has to renew its lease. Then, it might not matter. Last night I was four feet, four fucking feet, from the goddamn router and it just quit on me. Dropped the signal and server I was hosting for the moment.
Part of my problem is that I'm not 100% sure that I'm not screwing it up, because I'm not 100% confident in what I'm doing. But it feels right. It feels like I've done all that I can do and that has me thinking it's not router or the laptop, but the house and it's bouncing the signal around in weird ways.
That's right, my house is made from crashed UFO pieces.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 9:57 AM
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