Hooray for Wireless!

[c9]

Well, it's starting. I bought a wireless router. And I brought my work laptop home to make use of it while Vinny works on his Personal Finance course work. So here I am lying on the couch, the laptop on my lap, happily surfing away while Vinny tries to convince me that they don't really mean LAPtop.

Does this mean that my own laptop purchase is approaching? Yes. I want this one, which is on sale until Midnight Tonight. Hmmmm.

I just don't have the money right now, unfortunately. I feel guilty, actually, because some close friends gave us laptop money as a wedding gift, so if I take that, plus money I earned from dumping stuff on eBay, I have almost enough. But I also have debt, and really need to deal with that in case we move, AND we're planning to buy a house/condo in Kitchener or TOronto, wherever we end up, so we have even less flexibility.

I hope my friends don't mind that the money they gave us is going to a laptop someday, rather than now.

But let's be realistic. Would I have purchased a wireless router if I thought the laptop wasn't coming soon? :-)

Comments

[instynct.livejournal.com]

cush.

write me if you need help setting up encryption and protection... else your router will be hacked by someone needing free wireless like me :)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Sadly, my work laptop is old, so I'm using WEP 128-bit to secure things right now. Not 100% tight, but decent.

The router has built-in MAC filtering, which I like. Once we get the new laptop, I'll probably limit use to that MAC address only, just to lock things up further...

Feel free to sugest things I should check, of course! :)