Entering the 21st century step by step...
Jun. 24th, 2009 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prusikThe WiFi router showed up today. Apparently, everything wants to be rebooted when you make a configuration change. Also, my ISP apparently still cares what MAC address you present to their network. (I thought they'd stopped caring, but I'm wrong.)
Getting my Tablet PC onto the network was an exercise in frustration. For whatever reason, WPA2-PSK would not show up as an option until I uninstalled and reinstalled the wireless card. (What would we ever do without Google?)
Getting the iPhone on the network was much easier. The only cumbersome bit was typing in the pass key. (I suspect I could have emailed the key to myself then pasted it in. However, this was a good test of the virtual keyboard. In any case, I got it on the first try.)
So now, according to the internet bandwidth test I tried out, I have ~6Mbps from my wireless devices. (Singly. I didn't try them at the same time.) This is much better than the 100-300 kpbs I had been getting with my old router.
The only problem now is that I blew away my printer configuration on my Mac. I need to fix that or else I can't print anything...
Getting my Tablet PC onto the network was an exercise in frustration. For whatever reason, WPA2-PSK would not show up as an option until I uninstalled and reinstalled the wireless card. (What would we ever do without Google?)
Getting the iPhone on the network was much easier. The only cumbersome bit was typing in the pass key. (I suspect I could have emailed the key to myself then pasted it in. However, this was a good test of the virtual keyboard. In any case, I got it on the first try.)
So now, according to the internet bandwidth test I tried out, I have ~6Mbps from my wireless devices. (Singly. I didn't try them at the same time.) This is much better than the 100-300 kpbs I had been getting with my old router.
The only problem now is that I blew away my printer configuration on my Mac. I need to fix that or else I can't print anything...
