Uh-oh...

[conuly]

So, I finally bought me a router. And I got it *all the way home* before I realized that I need ethernet cables for it to work. (It also can function wirelessly, but I need a something-or-other for that too, I believe)

I don't have ethernet anything. My modem plugs straight into my laptop or the big computer via a USB cord.

And I paid too much for this router, I know, I know.

Dang it.

So I haven't opened the box yet. I want to be able to return it if, say, one of my friends (or my Uncle Gabriel) should pop up and offer to send me a decent router with all the necessary accoutrements.

In other news, I'm apparently scheduled to take a CPE tomorrow at noon. There's no way. I'm babysitting tomorrow at noon. Besides, I'm fairly certain that I'm exempt from those or something, so I have to fix this. Damn mail service, fucking up when I get news of stuff.

Comments

[conuly]

That's why I don't want wireless at all. I only ever use the internet on my laptop from one area, so all I really have to do is have one ethernet cable permanently attatched to the big computer, and the other dangling in my room somewhere.

[griphus.livejournal.com]

just make sure to do the math first. most major places don't even sell regular routers anymore (wireless routers double as regular ones), and it might be cheaper to get a wireless card for your laptop than it would to get a regular card for the laptop and buy ethernet cable (which can get expensive).

[conuly]

Wireless stuff in our home has a nasty habit of not working. So I want to try it with my laptop first (and the router I already got is a wireless router, so that's no problem) and then see if it's worth hooking up the big computer.

I'll make a new post for the question that just occured to me.