I've lived in this apartment for 20 months now, and have thus far survived without wireless internet. And before then, I lived in university housing without wireless for an additional 20ish months. But I think I'm finally starting to reach that breaking point. My parents gave me a (yet-unpurchased) couch/daybed/futon/something to sleep on for my spare bedroom for Christmas. This means, I really need to clean out that room which has sort of just become a storage room for stuff. Not that big of a deal, but it's going to take me a while to sort out the random stuff that's in there. Most of it I never really unpacked, clearly leading me to believe I probably don't need it all that badly if I haven't bothered to use it in the last 20 months. To be fair, it's also housing some of my crafting stuff, and holiday decorations too. So the cleaning/sorting/donating to Goodwill or my mom's rummage sale will commence tonight. (And continue until finished!) The drawback of this is that for the next week to 10 days at night, I'll be stuck in my guest bedroom without internet. So no watching Hulu, or chatting with friends, or keeping an eye on the game score while I'm back there. Arg. I think I really ought to just suck it up and by a wireless router and get it over with. Then I can listen to Brewers (or Twins) games from my computer this spring while I do laundry, or make my bed, or watch a show on Hulu while I do crafts in the guest bedroom instead of taking over the living room floor.
So the next question becomes, which brand/kind should I get? And how do I set it up? Any of you with wireless want to give suggestions??
So the next question becomes, which brand/kind should I get? And how do I set it up? Any of you with wireless want to give suggestions??
We have a Linksys router, but then my father-in-law works for Cisco Systems and gave it to us. But it works really great. They are relatively easy to set up too. However, I didn't do it so I can't provide any real help with that.
ReplyDeleteI like Netgear because I can put on 2 or 3 levels of security on it. Very nice. And if you ever get one, I can provide setup.
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