I hate technology

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My iPhone stopped connecting to the wifi at home yesterday. Worked fine for months, worked while in Paris last week, worked when we got home, but then stopped. Tried resetting the phone, the wifi router, the network settings in the phone, turning off WPA, changing SSID... nothing worked. So obviously the phone has the problem.

...except when I got to work, wifi on the phone works perfectly on the work wireless network. So obviously it's the wireless router at home that has the problem.

...except that my laptops at home (1 mediacentre laptop, 1 netbook, 1 work laptop) and Vincent's iPhone all connect to it fine, and have forever.

...except that Vincent's laptop keeps losing wireless at random intervals, even when wifi is stable and fine for others. And when friends visit, their iPhones can't connect to our wifi (2 weeks ago at a party) even though it's worked in the past.

I have a backup wifi router I'll try, but ARGH. The whole point of this exercise was better more reliable internet and less electricity usage. My blood pressure is ridiculous over this.

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[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

Hey--I saw your comment on [Bad username or unknown identity: thespos"]'s recent LJ post, and then saw your post here: Join the Luddites. This post reminds me of the time I thought I'd outsmart Microsoft by getting two PCs, and networking them. See, I figured that if one computer went down, I'd still have use of another computer. In practice, however, I had twice the problems with two PCs, than I did with one PC, plus problems with the network.

I have a backup wifi router I'll try, but ARGH. The whole point of this exercise was better more reliable internet and less electricity usage. My blood pressure is ridiculous over this.

Exactly. But, it doesn't seem to work out that way. However, the time away from actually using IT, and money poured into establishing and re-establishing, and maintaining that IT, rises.