fingers crossed for computer greatness

I’m not sure if I mentioned this, but when we came back from Philadelphia, our wireless network was fried. And my mouse died a few weeks ago (thought it was a driver, and it’s more than that.) Tonight, I felt as if I was rebuilding a computer.

We worked on the router to try and get it to work and while the computers pick up the network, the internet port is done. I am pretty sure power surges during the snow storm of ’09 killed the internet. (Or, the port, at least.)

So tonight I bought a USB hub for my mouse and other items (I couldn’t use my mouse, the internet and connect my iPod to the computer all at the same time because I only had two USB ports….it was a problem.) So far, the hub seems to be working (yay for Shawn and the Best Buy guy for steering me in the right direction!) I decided to go with a Netgear router, because I’ve gone through THREE Linksys routers in the past two years. And that was after I had one router for more than five years with no problems. 

Keep your fingers crossed. I’m signing off to make magic in our home. My husband would be so happy if he could use his own computer this week.

Update: Two hours later….the new router isn’t working properly. I thought it was (I had the husband’s computer connected) and then the connection disappeared. The user interface for the wireless settings isn’t as easy as the Linksys settings, and I can’t get my computer to connect to the internet without being plugged in directly. This can’t be the solution because the cable is in a different room! (I currently have cables running through two rooms and we’re tripping over everything.)

Netgear is a major fail in my books. Unless it can miraculously fix itself overnight. This girl is going to bed.