New router

Posted by Roo - 10/10/06 at 10:10:26 pm

While I was away last week my wife had to cope with a dying wireless router, which began fizzing to signify the end of its useful life. I’m not a hardware expert, but I’ve always believed routers shouldn’t fizz.

A quick trip to the local peripherals shop, and we are the proud new owners Belkin G+ MIMO ADSL modem router thingy. It was fairly cheap, was super easy to set up, and, so far at least, doesn’t make any fizzing noises.

Being back on the internet again is a warm, relief-filled feeling.

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  1. [...] I found a BT Openzone wifi sofa. It turned out to be a pay-for service (which I decided against, since I’d checked emails earlier in the morning) but it did offer Nintendo DS online action for free, which worked well. I have been trying (and failing) to get this working at home with my Belkin G+ MIMO wireless router, so the opportunity to play Mario Kart DS against a random person from Japan was a pretty exciting experience [...]

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  2. wireless routers are very necessary nowadays because we do not want so many wires running around the home ‘~”

    Comment by Flatware Sets %0A — November 22, 2010 #

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