Tom Hanks is a great actor. Anyone that can carry an entire movie about being deserted on an island is special.

Remember the scene where after much frustration and bleeding hands, he gets makes a fire? The beach scene…

STABLE WIRELESS… I, GOING LIKE SIXTY, HAVE STABLE WIRELESS.

Nancy gets all the credit.

I tried.

I installed a LinkSys wireless router.

Doink, in the evening when traffic was highest, I’d get booted. I would have to reset the cable modem and the router. It would happen a couple times a night.

So I got a Netgear router. One with omni-directional antenna.

NETGEAR’s RangeMax Wireless Router (WPN 824) extends your wireless network coverage up to 10 times that of standard 802.11g due to an advanced Smart MIMO (Multi-In, Multi-Out) technology that incorporates seven intelligent internal antennas.

Uh no. Still really unstable. If I hit a graphics heavy site, or one with multiple scripts:

Doink, booted. Reset modem. New problem. Once booted, I had trouble getting back on without restarting desktop and laptop. Even that would fail. I succumbed to buying and calling tech support.

Nancy saved the day.

She reads every page of every insert in the Sunday newspaper. That’s her routine. Staples had a Netgear “whole house” router with installation on sale. We moseyed on over to the old strip mall and got their only one in stock.

For two days I have had stable wireless. Boo-yah.

Thank you for the early Valentine’s Day present dear. I love it.

If I can use it next summer on the porch swing… ahhhhhhh…