Sunday, 23 February 2003

Cool After a decent wait for my ISP to begin offering ADSL I'm hooked up. 512/128K, always on. Woo hoo! There was a slight hiccough as for 2 days I was without the line filters that let me use the 'phone while the ADSL is active. That's all fixed now. Then I bought a new Apple Airport Extreme base station. Woo hoo to the power of 4! Yeah, it's kinda cool sitting in bed or at the kitchen table with 512K Web access. It's even cooler that all I have to do is flip up the lid of the notebook and I have instant Web. No dialing up, no wait, nothing. This is the way it should be. Of course, life isn't that simple for the older Win2K PC: for some reason best known to Microsoft, Win2K won't recognise the existence of peripherals, like even the speakers, if they aren't turned on and active when the PC boots. Maybe I'm fussy, but even this techo thinks it a bit rich to have to go to Control Panel / System / Device Manager and right click to scan for hardware changes just because I forgot to turn the speakers on in time. Bah. Even that doesn't work for the ADSL modem. Bah squared. The dude in the Apple shop said once I switch, I'll never go back. I'm starting to believe him. 3:02:19 PM    comment []