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.