New laptop... It's intended use is for work, but who knows how much that will happen :) Probably more than I'll admit... considering today it's happened for a couple of hours while outside on the patio. It's great having wireless now in the house. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A355-S6940. I'm pleased so far, but it's only been about 4 days with it. The only downside is that it has Vista. I've been contemplating an install of XP since it has two drives then just having a dual-boot. But, either by Toshiba design or Windows mandate, there are shared files for the operation of Vista on both drives. So, essentially, if I wanted to keep both installations, I would need to install Vista on the one drive completely, then install XP on the seperate drive. I'm not convinced to tackle that right now. Vista has been running fine in both personal applications, and for work applications. We'll see as it gets loaded up...
The wireless router that I got was the D-Link Xtreme N™ Gigabit DIR-655. After one day, no problems. Set-up took 7 minutes and 38 seconds. No joke, I timed it. There were some complaints about set-up time. I really don't see how that is remotely possible if you actually follow the set-up instructions.
So, now I can lounge on the patio in the shade while the wife hangs out in the sun :)
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