"A means of tampering with someone's equilibrium, ultimately impacting their sanity (5,11)"...
"A means of tampering with someone's equilibrium, ultimately impacting their sanity (5,11)" - I'd sleep on it, if I could...
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"I want to use your study as a studio", she said.
And so started the Great Relocation (of sundry bits, bobs and paraphernalia which may not have seen the light of day in years!) from the study, aka "the room where the phone line lived" at one end of the house, to a purpose-built room at the rear, and at the opposite end, of the house.
Now my trusty Zoom ADSL modem and USR wireless switch/router combo only just managed on a good day to push t'Interweb from the study (as was, or studio-to-be) through at least 4 walls to the new location - so relocating the family workhorse wired desktop Dell PC into the realm of the fully wireless was going to be a challenge.
Step one was to minimise the amount of real-estate taken up by the ADSL feed into the house - from 2 bits of kit, amidst a tangle of cables on a desk in the study, down to one bit of kit hanging on the wall in the soon-to-be-studio... achieved admirably with the procurement of a new wireless modem router (of which more in my review elsewhere on Ciao).
Step two was to sponge a PCI-based wireless card for the PC off eBay as cost-effectively as possible, based on the experience gained hooking the kids' PC up to the USR using a Linksys WMP54GS (also recounted on Ciao elsewhere).
Sadly, whilst the WMP54GS upstairs, two walls and a floor away from the ADSL entry-point in the studio, worked brilliantly with its shiny new wall-mounted adoptive wireless modem router downstairs, my second-hand WMP54G off eBay refused to hold on to the signal well enough when the Dell was on the desk, and failed completely when it was positioned in its intended final location under the desk in the new "study".
Cue the Belkin N1 Wireless USB adapter, or F5D8051uk, PCN 7-22868-60657-5. Peeling the shrink-wrap off the box revealed the typical Belkin silver "open here" arrow on the carton inside the sleeve, and a very easily-read 1-sheet "how to get you going" instruction leaflet.
"First Insert the CD into the PC", and follow the prompts... A couple of Next's and the setup program told me to plug the USB cable on the cradle into the PC, then to plug the rather large USB dongle into the cradle. The PC complained that I could get better performance if I plugged all into a USB 2.0 slot (not that I have one yet, that's for another day!), advice which was resolutely shunned at this stage.
Pretty much straight-off, the Belkin client software popped-up and let me key in the SSID I use (don't want to make it too easy for the neighbours!), and it detected and latched onto the wall-mounted wireless modem router hanging on the wall back in the "studio" as easily as you please. The Dell PC was returned to its space on the floor, under the desk, and the USB adapter was positioned on the edge of the bookshelf housing our eye-level inkjet printer (all mod-cons here y'see!).
So here I sit, in the new study-cum-office, typing away on the PC that used to live in the study/studio, with hardly a wire in sight... whilst herself slaps the Dulux "One-Coat" on the walls of her new studio! Thanks, Belkin - a real treat!
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I loved the beginning of our review LOL, sounds much like my digifusion one. Great review as usual my friend. I have a few wireless adapters but none of them Belkin. I find the Sitcom to be very reliable though, Philips ones on the other hand suck!
tallulahbang 09.01.2009 17:21
I suspect you of having made those combinations of letters and numbers up. xx
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