Jolt Country

Every time I have to get some basic item for the 360 it's like being flung forty years into the future where the dollar is debased even more than it is now. Microsoft thinks a simple dongle that connects via USB to the 360 ought to be $80. I don't know why they stopped at eighty. Charge a hundred for it, assholes. The richest corporation in the world reduced to greasy hucksterism over a wireless adapter. I'm not getting it.

The reason I'm going to eventually get it is that I can't do wires any more. There's a 100 foot wire going from downstairs (where the router is) through the stairs, along the wall and under the door to the guest room (where the Upstairs PC is). It looks terrible. I can't shut the door if the wires aren't on the ground in that area between the door and carpet. It looks terrible! I want to go wireless.

Additionally, I'd like to use my laptop computer again. It's bad enough I'm tethered due to power, but having the network cable hanging out of it is also a pain.

And then there's my phone. I simply cannot get 3G or Edge at home. It really makes me mad, too. When the FCC decided to auction off the block of the electromagnetic spectrum that was originally free TV, we had a decision to make as a country. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but a band that has an amazing range for an entire city, that can penetrade concrete and shit is perfect for city-wide WiFi. I mean, I may not understand it correctly - but I think that it could just as easily be used to carry a WiFi signal as a TV one, right? Maybe I don't have all the facts. They sold it to assholes, though, so we'll never get that. If I owned an island nation, that would be promptly installed. That will never happen, and I must stop teasing my imagination that it will.

want mine? $40 shipped, or I'll trade for something.
I ended up going back to wired when I moved everything around.

Straw wrote:

'I ended up going back to wired when I moved everything around.'

What does that say about game lag and running cat5 down the walls instead of spending money for something that works less well?


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Straw, lemme sleep on it. Baby, baby, let me sleep on it. I gotta decide if I'm really going all-wireless around here, and if so, I think it means getting some wireless network cards or some shit. I know nothing about the actual hardware for wireless networks.

I've got a PCI-E wireless card with the antenna and everything if you want it too, $45 for both. I took it out of the downstairs PC when I put the Asus Xonar DX in that slot. Great soundcard, one day I hope to have decent enough speakers for it to matter. It has old-school relays on the board and you can hear them actually click when Windows boots up or it changes modes.

So I'm thinking to myself, "Why doesn't he just use that wireless router I sent him?" and then I got this sickening feeling in my stomach and it hit me that I never sent it. I suck donkey doo doo. I still have it sitting at home -- send me your address and I can mail it out in the morning.

For a wireless network you need a wireless router and wireless cards. Wireless cards come in any physical format you need (ISA, PCMCIA, USB, etc). I think 802.11a is pretty much dead at this point; everything's either b/g or n. In a perfect world G is supposed to give you ~50 mbit and N is supposed to deliver ~100 mbit, but, um, yeah. Unless you don't own cordless phones or a microwave and only have one device using it, you'll never see those speeds. N does have a longer range.

js wrote:I've got a PCI-E wireless card with the antenna and everything if you want it too, $45 for both. I took it out of the downstairs PC when I put the Asus Xonar DX in that slot. Great soundcard, one day I hope to have decent enough speakers for it to matter. It has old-school relays on the board and you can hear them actually click when Windows boots up or it changes modes.

Dude, are you still jobless? I hope not. I just read that the Seattle Police department is still looking to hire another 100 officers, apparently they're still down almost 200 hundred from where they should be. You should apply for something out here and move the fam.

yep. taking another civil service exam Oct. 10th.
I've been kicking ass on the red MR2, it goes out front for sale tomorrow or the day after. My goal is to get that one out of here and the silver one back together and driveable by the end of the driving season.

No, really you should apply to shit out here. I can't believe you wouldn't get some understanding about your stupid driving record when they are actively trying to get new york cops to move here.