The Good News: Our cable broadband works, and is fast, fast, fast. 1.7Mbps down, 200Kbps up.<\/p>\n
The Bad News: I am so <\/i>fricking sick and tired <\/i>of frelling pulling teeth and pounding away at the craptastic management software over and over and over to get our antique D-Link Wireless Access Point to work any time I change a configuration (like, oh, now<\/i>), that I’m just going to go out and buy something that does the job right and easy and out of the box tomorrow.<\/p>\n
So, at the moment, access only from Margie’s machine, and a big, long cable stretched across the floor. But it’s working.<\/i><\/p>\n
Hoody-frickin-hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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