Networking joys

Net­wor­king is not the most fun of things to do on your Sun­day after­noon. After having tried repea­tedly on Satur­day night to con­nect my com­pu­ter (now that I have retur­ned home from uni­ver­sity) to my cable broad­band inter­net and fai­ling, on Sun­day mor­ning we rang the ISP to sort things out. We have two com­pu­ters and no #wor­king# rou­ter (we had Bel­kin you see, this means it dies after six months) – we simply wan­ted to switch cables bet­ween com­pu­ters and modems as a tem­po­rary solu­tion. Three sepa­rate phone calls to the ISP later and still no luck – we could get the modem and the Win­dows 98 com­pu­ter tal­king and con­nec­ting suf­fi­ciently, but the XP device would simply not co-operate – even after regis­te­ring the phy­si­cal address with the ISP.

We gave in and went to PC World, for­ked out £70 on a Linksys rou­ter and came home and ins­ta­lled it. Works like a charm and took 10 minu­tes to ins­tall as oppo­sed to the two hour Bel­kin screw up that wouldn’t even ins­tall the requi­red soft­ware on my computer.

It’s nice to be back at home.

Thin Lizzy is pla­ying Whis­key in the Jar.