Ooooh. Shiny.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nToday, I turned off the WiFi on the old router (which is still functioning as a cable modem) and reset the SSI and password on the TP-Link to match what we had had before (one difference being that the 2.4 and 5.8 used to have different SSIs). I then spent about an hour rebooting the home equipment that didn’t automagically connect to the new setup.<\/p>\n
And it was all a success. Huzzah!<\/p>\n
Next step will be getting a replacement router — one that Xfinity will recognize, and that will take advantage of our current bandwidth. That’ll be another weekend install, probably also rejiggering how it all fits in the corner cabinet where the\u00a0 network and A\/V boxen reside. But once that’s in place, we’ll be fairly up to date with all this stuff and I can stop thinking about it for a few years.<\/p>\n
I’m not going through all this to brag (believe me, I am still in the asking-stupid-questions of friends about a lot of this newer stuff). It’s just interesting to me that something that has seen so many technical advances (the whole “microcomputer” biz) over my professional lifetime still operates on basic principles I can recognize and use.\u00a0 I have no problem throwing money at problems that I don’t think I can handle, but it’s kind of gratifying that there are enough things I don’t need to hire a technician for that I don’t have to feel overwhelmed by the March of Progress.<\/p>\n
I am sure I will (in all too few years) be the guy calling his grandson complaining about how there’s this light blinking on the black box doohickey — no, the one with the picture of a spider on the front — well, it looks like a spider to me — well, it’s been blinking red, and I think our Internet is slower, but the Netflix \/ WB \/ Xfinity guy on the phone said I’d have to pay to have someone come out, and if you have some free time this weekend, could you …? <\/em>Yeah, that<\/span> guy.<\/p>\nUntil then? Well, good to know I still have it.\u00a0 Well, most of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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