CHUCK IN A BOX

…to hold me down.  To make me laugh, to make me frown – or to keep me tethered to a cable modem.  I previously had a little Belkin G wireless router to try to share the high speed goodness of Comcast throughout the rest of the house and to my laptop upstairs.  I would frequently have issues with the number of bars and was never able to take my laptop outside on really nice days – as of today (about 30 minutes ago actually) that has ALL CHANGED!

By now, if you are not living under a rock, everyone knows that Circuit City is going out of business (I bet Best Buy is LOVING IT!) and today we stopped in to see what they had on sale.  I had been checking out more powerful wireless routers – I’m kinda partial to Belkin – I guess because they’ve seemed so easy to work with so I had been looking at their N and N+ routers.  I was leaning toward the N+ because it has a USB port so that I could plug in my external hard drive and it has gigabit Ethernet ports.  Circuit City had the N+ on sale – regularly $119.00 with 20% off which ended up being about $95 – I’ll take the $25 thankyouverymuch!  Maybe I’ll give the G one to someone on the Petersburg Freecycle website….I already gave my parents an old Netgear router I had when I set up their network.  Hmmm maybe my aunt might need/want one – I’ll have to check.

This one seemed to take a bit longer to set up than the G originally did BUT after getting it all up and running, I took a tour of the yard with my laptop and was able to get a full 5 bars ANYWHERE in my house OR out in the yard.  This is gonna be so great in summer when I can sit out on the back deck or on the back patio and surf, game, or blog.  YAY TECHNOLOGY!!