Zippy!

When we bought our laptop last December, we also installed a wireless router so that we could have some mobility. If you haven't experienced the mobility of wi-fi and a laptop, you are so missing out. After a few months, our router developed an annoying problem where it couldn't clearly broadcast a signal (turns out there was too much "noise", whatever that means). The solution was that we would go downstairs to reset the router multiple times throughout the day. And that didn't include the times when we felt lazy and simply tried to refresh our connection from upstairs - over, and over, and over again. Extra annoying was that you wouldn't necessarily know that you'd lost a connection - in the middle of writing blog posts, paying bills, etc., it would quietly go belly up.

A couple weeks ago, hubby started suggesting that we buy a new router. Being the slightly stingy miser that I've been evolving into over the past 5 or so years, I was having trouble justifying buying a new router when the old one was merely temperamental. Extremely, irritatingly temperamental. Hubby finally won me over, and I'm so glad he did. The new router didn't cost much, and the results of having it up and running are like having a brandnew, super fast computer. It's so speedy, the way DSL should be. I feel a sense of calm knowing that when I get to the end of this post and click "publish", it will actually do just that, and it's been saving as I type along, too. Zippy has brought computer Zen to our home.