New Wireless
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Brian under Web.
We have been suffering through slow wireless for many years now. Our Wireless B was so old that it was not even capable of 128-bit encryption. I was trying to talk Ching into getting something better because we were not taking full advantage of our Internet Service capabilities, but she was not seeing it. She was instead trying to lower our Service to match our current equipment. I told her that if we upgraded our wireless then it would make our VPN’s work faster and we could work from home a lot better. Especially since she is on call with her work so often.
The other day we got lucky. Ching’s Dad e-mailed her and let her know that he had a wireless router that we could have because he was upgrading. I told Ching that this would be good because we could then speed up our wireless and get better connection speeds. She agreed and I picked up the router today after work.
After about an hour of being frustrated and calling my dad for advice I finally got the router reset and working. I had to wait for it to associate with all the proper channels but once it did it worked perfectly. I set it up like we had the other one and then grabbed my laptop to test the wireless. I was so pleased to see that my computer connected quickly and without any problem.
While I was finishing the set up on my laptop Ching messaged me and let me know she was on Google chat and wanted to Video chat with me. This was a perfect opportunity to test the new wireless and make sure that the connection was indeed faster. I was ecstatic to see that the video was crisp and almost seamless. While I was talking to Ching I decided to try out Hulu. I was very pleased when I saw that the video loaded in 480 HD without any delay and I didn’t have to pause it every few min to let the video buffer enough to watch it.
Ching said that she can not wait to get home to test the new Wireless out. I set up my work lap top and tested out the VPN. It connected immediately and I was able to down load my e-mails almost instantly. Before I had to wait almost 15 min to let Outlook connect and pull the mail from the server. This is going to make working from home so much easier for both of us. The only issue I have at the moment is that I can not seem to get Ching’s work laptop to connect and I can not figure out why. I worked on it for almost an hour before I gave up. I will work with Ching tomorrow to get it working. I know her laptop is Wireless-G capable, I checked the properties. The only thing I can think of is that her work laptop has some special security that I am not aware of that she needs to work around.
To sum it all up. I am very pleased with the performance and I hope that we can get Ching’s work laptop up and running.
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