With the Sweet One moving in here soon and me jonesing for some new tech toy, I splurged on some sort-of necessary equipment to set this house up for WiFi Compliant networking. Hello, 802.11b, goodbye Cat 5 cable! Linksys makes some extremely easy to set up and install equipment: BEFW11S4 – EtherFast® Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/4-Port Switch and WPC11 – Instant Wireless Network Adapter. Her desktop PC will get a wired connection to the access point when it arrives.
No more need for the perfectly good Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet adapter and annoying dongle, so it gets X’ed out.
Update, 30 minutes later: The web is an amazing thing, as I am constantly reminded. Minutes after I published this entry in it’s original form an email from E. J. Fischer arrived; he’d seen my blog passing through Blogger.com’s Fresh Blogs listing. To get in that list, a blog needs to be one of the first 10 blogs published in any given minute (as determined by the clock on a particular Blogger server). Clicking through to my blog, what does EJ see but my entry about getting 802.11b set up here. EJ’s dad invented 802.11. EJ writes the Maelstrom Cognizance weblog.
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