Last night I installed that new 802.11G router I got from Staples.com
for only $20. I was afraid that Belkin would cheap out on the
installation process and it would a very arduous task. It wasn’t! It
was easy as pie! They had stickers all over everything telling you to
run the installation software BEFORE plugging in the router. I figured
they probably meant it so I followed their instructions.

The
install process detected that I had a PPOE connection and prompted me
for my login info. Then it handled everything else. Most everything
else. I still have to get the WEP configured so the Macintosh and
Wintel systems both connect correctly. I have to confess I may just
resort to using the MAC-address filtering. I found out that with my
older DLink system it works quite well, even if it doesn’t encrypt the
data it bars anyone else from connecting to the network. And the
macintosh doesn’t seem to handle the decode/encoding process very well
– that is graphics slow the connection down hideously.

In any
case, its running and the installation was flawless! Liz started her
macintosh and said “Hey, did you install that router-thingie alread?”.

Oh
geez. I figured something wasn’t working but I couldn’t understand
what. I’d already tested it and it worked fine. I confirmed that I had
already done that and she said “Because its REALLY fast!”

I was so pleased.

So what do I do with the old one? I should be able to do something useful with it, shouldn’t I? But what?

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