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Frugality!
Apr. 21st, 2010 10:23 amFor full effect, imagine the above word read in the stentorian tones of the "Mortal Kombat" narrator.
This last month I've taken a look at some of my bills and noticed that there was significant room for improvement. I took a couple of big steps in that direction yesterday. First of all, my new wireless router arrived, and I was able to hook it up to my new DSL line. For the last few days, I had still been using my old cable modem service because my old wireless router would work with that but not the new DSL. This new $25 wireless router, a Rosewill 802.11n Draft 2.0 model, works perfectly and gives me 150 MBPS wireless with my laptop and iPad.
(It also came with a free USB 802.11n wifi dongle, which I'm not entirely sure what to do with—at present, all my devices have at least 802.11g wireless capability, and I don't foresee any future devices not having it. Given that even g's 54 MBPS is faster than the 6 MBPS downstream I get from DSL, the important stuff is already covered.)
( Fun with Phone )
This last month I've taken a look at some of my bills and noticed that there was significant room for improvement. I took a couple of big steps in that direction yesterday. First of all, my new wireless router arrived, and I was able to hook it up to my new DSL line. For the last few days, I had still been using my old cable modem service because my old wireless router would work with that but not the new DSL. This new $25 wireless router, a Rosewill 802.11n Draft 2.0 model, works perfectly and gives me 150 MBPS wireless with my laptop and iPad.
(It also came with a free USB 802.11n wifi dongle, which I'm not entirely sure what to do with—at present, all my devices have at least 802.11g wireless capability, and I don't foresee any future devices not having it. Given that even g's 54 MBPS is faster than the 6 MBPS downstream I get from DSL, the important stuff is already covered.)
( Fun with Phone )
