Last night B tried to set up the wireless network. He was never able to get it working at our prior apartment, but his hair cutter (!) gave him some tips, so he decided to try again.
When/if it works, it will enable me to run IE and Outlook on the laptop, and print from there too, so we won't have to be sneaker-netting all the time and have a bazillion copies of every document all over every storage device.
It worked, sorta, but was really slow and the signal kept dropping AND only one computer could be on the Internet at a time. No good, so he called tech support this morning and they ran him through all sorts of arcane settings, and it worked well.
Until he got off the phone - same thing: only one computer can be on at a time, and then you have to reboot them to reset. So it's back to tech support.
Bottom line: I won't be moving my internet and email files off the desktop anytime soon. In the meantime, though, I should be archiving my spring semester files and getting rid of drafts and duplicates.
Man. I hate reading other people's techy blog entries. I apologize for this one.
Posted by otto0114 at June 9, 2004 03:04 PM