To Wire or Not

Sorry about being MIA for a week or so. Our internet started having problems one day, but we kept thinking it was us because it would affect one of the two laptops at home. Peter called Rogers and they claimed it was our router that's the problem. Finally, I decided to call Rogers and wanted to know how to fix the problem. As it turns out, there is a problem on their end. Surprisingly I was the first to call ---since I live in a 19 story condo building with at least 50 units per floor. We had to call several times to get the computer working again after they claimed to have fixed it on their end. A day or so later, my computer is still not working so I decided to just go buy a new router after consulting with some people about my computer not recognizing the signal. At Staples, the salesperson tells me it's not my router if one computer is working... so I ended up calling the router company. Finally, it was because some wiring problem. But now I am back online again.

What I learned from this experience is that, don't get wireless equipment for everything! During this time, we couldn't use the printer because it's wireless --- apparently I can't just get a printer cable and print that way. In addition, lots of problems with the laptops. Now I have new appreciation for the wireless technology.