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We've finally joined the latter half of the first decade of the 21st century. I finally built up enough offerings to Shub-Internet and the broadband fairy shambler visited our house!
(Jinx, jinx, jinx. There, now that that's out of the way...)
A lot less painful than I'd expected, even given that there was some confusion with the two phone lines at the box. Once the gateway was booted up, mine was "enable NIC and go". I tell you, the feeling of joy that soared in my breast when I pressed Alt+Home and bam there was a fully loaded iGoogle page was a rare and precious thing. My mother's computer had some hiccups, including that some bright spark had disabled her network card in Device Manager and getting Zone Alarm to auto-configure it (since for some reason you can't manually add a subnet adapter in the "Internet Zone", only "Trusted Zone", nor can you edit it afterwards to say so -- wtf?) and apparently her dial-up ISP is all bitchy about letting you send mail through their server if you're not actually dialed in (not unexpected in itself, but I was surprised to find no alternative settings options on their support than "port 25, username and password" -- no different port to use SSL, nothing). I think we've got it all sorted now though.
You know what's funny, though, is that the increased speed (6 Mbit) isn't really what pleases me: it's that we'll no longer have traffic jams because all four of us can be online at once, rather than just two of us. I'll be able to come home and get online without having to wait for anyone else to finish and then doing the "who's on what phone line" shuffle (only one computer has connections to both line A and line B; the other three are all crowding line B).
Edit: Also, husband can now play WoW again, like, for reals yo. I'd say "I'm never going to see him again" except that our computers are right next to one another.
On the down side, the guy kept hassling me when he passed through the living room about how I was playing Guitar Hero III on easy. After the second time of that I told him I wasn't paying him to criticize, and he laughed. (He probably did have a point that a 178-note streak on "School's Out" means I can probably hack medium on that song, at least.)
(Jinx, jinx, jinx. There, now that that's out of the way...)
A lot less painful than I'd expected, even given that there was some confusion with the two phone lines at the box. Once the gateway was booted up, mine was "enable NIC and go". I tell you, the feeling of joy that soared in my breast when I pressed Alt+Home and bam there was a fully loaded iGoogle page was a rare and precious thing. My mother's computer had some hiccups, including that some bright spark had disabled her network card in Device Manager and getting Zone Alarm to auto-configure it (since for some reason you can't manually add a subnet adapter in the "Internet Zone", only "Trusted Zone", nor can you edit it afterwards to say so -- wtf?) and apparently her dial-up ISP is all bitchy about letting you send mail through their server if you're not actually dialed in (not unexpected in itself, but I was surprised to find no alternative settings options on their support than "port 25, username and password" -- no different port to use SSL, nothing). I think we've got it all sorted now though.
You know what's funny, though, is that the increased speed (6 Mbit) isn't really what pleases me: it's that we'll no longer have traffic jams because all four of us can be online at once, rather than just two of us. I'll be able to come home and get online without having to wait for anyone else to finish and then doing the "who's on what phone line" shuffle (only one computer has connections to both line A and line B; the other three are all crowding line B).
Edit: Also, husband can now play WoW again, like, for reals yo. I'd say "I'm never going to see him again" except that our computers are right next to one another.
On the down side, the guy kept hassling me when he passed through the living room about how I was playing Guitar Hero III on easy. After the second time of that I told him I wasn't paying him to criticize, and he laughed. (He probably did have a point that a 178-note streak on "School's Out" means I can probably hack medium on that song, at least.)
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Date: Jan. 20th, 2009 01:03 am (UTC)From:but yeah, medium is where it finally starts to get interesting. ;)
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