Thanksgiving 2008

No longer in Houston, Tx. Orion had waves of reductions so I had to move back to Albuquerque, NM to work on other programs in Honeywell Inc.

Today I'm at my parent's newly built house spending my vacation/holiday here to eat lots of turkey.

I brought my HP dv9207 and gave this to my parents. They really wanted to use a computer while sitting in the living room....hmmm...this is a nice laptop...I hope they don't drop and break it anytime soon. My mom, niece, nephew and myself went to Best Buy yesterday to find a wireless router. My parents have...broadband? Thy have a directional antenna on top of their roof and get less than 1Mb download speed. We got the Linksys WRT54g2 router. They don't have N network cards, and I figured all they want was to just browse wireless.

When hooking up the router, I first changed the router name, SSId, password and tried to get on-line. The laptop got an internal ip number, but it was not able to ping an outside url. damn! We went to a hockey game, so I had to put this project on hold till then. The entire trip to the rink and back, all I could think about was the wi-fi issue.

We got back in the house and I reset the router back to factory settings. Still no outside connection. I then thought that maybe the Internet service provider might be using the original computer's mac number as a verification. So, I cloned the mac address on the router. BOOYAA! It worked. I turned on WPA2/TKIP security. Changed the SSID and admin password. There is a new firmware for this router, but I figured this is good enough for now.

I'm staying here for another day and will be back to Albuquerque, NM on Saturday. Not much to do out here; I ended up washing and waxing both my parents cars. OMG, they were dirty.

I'm way too stuffed to continue....so keep blogging.

Thanksgiving

No longer in Houston, Tx. Orion had waves of reductions so I had to move back to Albuquerque, NM to work on other programs in Honeywell Inc.