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Tue | March 14, 2006

wi-fi

I set up a wireless router and got internet for my laptop yesterday. A few years ago my mom got a router, which I attempted to set up, failed, called customer service, got frustrated, and quit. This time I felt frustrated even at the thought of picking up the phone and having to go through it all again. I remembered that I literally couldn't understand what the person, an Indian dude, was saying. And I am relatively good, and fairly patient, with that sort of thing.

I waited until after lunch when I would have food coma and be too sedated to have the energy to be angry if the person was frustrating. Also, I went to Johnny Rockets with Henry. That put me in a good and stable mood. It happened to come together. So even though I waited about half an hour to get through and then was on the phone with the person for about an hour, I wasn't very frustrated. It's all about managing expectations, too, because I was ready for it to take that long. And maybe they got better at speaking English and I got better at understanding Indian-accented English.

The only thing I am uncertain about is that I deleted my Bryant Park setup, despite my apprehensions, when he told me to delete everything under preferred networks. But I am hardly ever in Bryant Park with my laptop anyway and it would only take a few minutes to set it up again. Also the connection isn't very fast when I was on invisible cube, last night, so there is something to figure out there.

When my mom got home with her laptop I set her up too. I don't even know how I knew. I just looked at some of the same things that I had opened up on mine. View wireless network connections, etc. and then just typing in the WEP key and clicking connect. And uninstalling the software for their wireless card because both our laptops came with cards. In retrospect none if it was that difficult; I don't know why it took that long.

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