It’s not you. It’s me.
More precisely, it’s my cranky old wireless router which has decided to finally bite the big one.
At least I think that’s what happening. My laptop connection at home has become increasingly flaky over the past few months and now I can’t seem to upload anything larger than a few hundred kilobytes. YOU try writing a blog post filled with awesome trip photos under such constraints.
As you can see, everything’s copacetic on the downstream side. I can load pages and stream crap all day long. But when I try to upload something – like a single picture or (heaven forbid) just a simple Wordpress draft, the whole thing chokes. In short, it’s a bad situation if I’d like to be more than just a passive viewer of everyone else’s content.
After some extensive testing with a couple of computers, my modem, the router and a whole bunch of ethernet cables, I’ve definitely identified my router as the culprit. I guess it’s due for retirement, seeing as how its been running almost non-stop for the past four years while sitting directly on top of my CPU. Hey, at least I didn’t put any heat lamps on it.
So I’ll run to Best Buy today at lunch, become horrified at how badly they’re ripping off the average schmuck and then order a replacement router online for half the price. But I need to check our local store first, because I’m old enough to remember when people actually bought electronics at a physical store. You know – in the last millenium.
I’ll try to spit out something a little more textually based tomorrow. In the interim, pour out a 40 for my Netgear WGR614.
(You people better appreciate that picture. It took like twenty minutes to upload.)
I appreciate it, mostly because I have one of those routers, sitting on my bookshelf – no longer in use.
I’m hoping for a followup post detailing current wireless router options for home use modernish parents. Ours is consistent in speed, but is offering a persistently weaker signal as of late.
I’m 99% sure I’ll go with the first decently priced 802.11g router I can find, because I’m too lazy to do any real research.
yeah, 802.11g, or the ole 907.5xb — which ever works…..
good luck. I am very glad I can just leave the hardware side of stuff to my wonderful husband. I try to understand it, but admit I get really confused really fast