Back to the Stoneage
As I have moved back to Reading University for my second year, I have moved into a house nearby the Uni with three of my friends. The house is quite old, dusty and grotty but apart from that it’s really nice being in a place of your own, rather than in halls. Plus more sleep, as there are less drunk and rowdy students about at 3am!
One considerable downside is that the network situation has not been fully completed yet. We have an extremely makeshift network consisting of very temperamental Virgin “2″ Mb broadband ( see picture below), a firmware hacked cable modem (for QoS), a weak wireless point and a Ethernet cable running upstairs going to another router, connecting two other computers.
To add insult to injury, we found after a good hour with Linux console and ndiswrapper that my newly bought off-the-shelf Wifi dongle, doesn’t easily work in Linux. Grrr! Windows, for now, it is!
As you could imagine, all of the above do not lead to a reliable internet connection as the following picture demonstrates:
I’ll hopefully soon get this sorted!
I’ll hopefully soon get this sorted!
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