I spent most of the afternoon over at the younger sister/brother-in-law’s place reworking their wireless network. Of course, he forgot to tell me that they switching providers (from TDS to Time Warner), and that the cable modem wouldn’t be wireless like his old DSL modem, so I had to make an emergency run to Best Buy to grab a wireless router.
Worse, the Ethernet port on their main computer is toast, and the computer downstairs (running WinME) just is too buggy, so I had to run back to the bunker to grab my laptop so I could program the new router. Then, the router was a bit balky once I disconnected the laptop, so I burned another hour getting things to the point where I could get their computers to connect from a cold restart without the laptop hooked in.
Oh well, all’s well that ends well, and they’re back on the ‘tubes. Even better, the allergies weren’t really affected by their dogs. Another successful Beernech Tech Support job.
