WiFi
Today I joined the 21st century.Prompted by my fight with SBC (which I will document at a later date), I picked up the following items.
They are highly rated, yet low in price, so I think they are best choice out there right now.
I've got cable access for the internet, but it only comes into my desktop in the office area at the rear of my flat. In order to use my laptop in my bedroom or in the living room, I use dial-up. I've had a phone line for that expressed purpose, but thanks to incompetance at SBC, I cancelled.
I really needed to set up a wireless network anyway because once the wife gets here we'll both need to use the internet at the same time. Also, if I'm watching the baby in the living room, I can still check email, download porn, or work on "keeping it real". So, I just had to have it.
Here's the great thing, and I've noticed it with recent purchases from Amazon and now from Buy.com, ...they don't all ship out of the west coast anymore. This means that packages that used to take 7 day, now take 2!
I ordered my package on Friday afternoon about 2pm. It arrived Monday at around 11:30am! The shipping slip showed that it was sent from a warehouse in Chicago. The same thing happened with a recent Amazon purchase, ordered on Friday, arrived on Monday. And both times I selected the FREE SHIPPING offer that says 7 to 9 days delivery.
These packages used to take forever to get here to Milwaukee, ...now THAT'S progress.
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