April 20th, 2005

Working wireless

[info]dvfmama had a wireless card, but it didn’t work to well. She’d go up to our room (not more than 40 feet from the access point) and signal would die out.

I had been playing with the idea of running conduit and wiring up the house with cat6. Then I came to my senses and bought a new router (the Linksys WRT54G which runs Linux) and some wireless cards.

So, now the kids have my brother’s old desktop to play on and [info]dvfmama has a laptop that she can use to post to her openweblog account from our room.

Usually when I buy something for the computer, [info]dvfmama complains that I’m wasting money. Not this time! She’s been writing up a storm and has posted some really good stuff including one post titled The Oldest Profession.