Take that intertubes ... and connecting devices

I am a bit of a numpty when it comes to electronic devices. TheWife, for example had to set up the digital recorder because it nearly made me cry :(

We've decided to advance our IT solutions and get a laptop with a wireless connection. I've had the laptop a week and the router for three days before I even summoned the courage to open them.

I failed last night to set up the router but this morning rang up my ISP, having carefully gotten a router modem they'd provide support on, and the lovely Indian man walked me through it (and didn't give a fake name either).

So that works.

I cracked open the laptop and initiated that process. Finally I got to the point of setting up a wireless connection.

No dice. It wanted me to reboot my modem. The lovely modem I'd just getting settings set on with Achmed.

(That's not a slight, that was his name).

So instead I read the manual, worked out a setting security default, set a password and then clicked the go button.

With a tentative hand I unplugged the Ethernet cable ... and it's still up!

I am writing from my dining room - with nary a cord plugged in to the magic new laptop. Hooray for me Captain Vegetable! I managed to accomplish something a 12 year old can do.

HM, signing off.