Thanks to the ever helping Raghu, my house is now a wi-fi enabled zone. The upgrade happened over the last weekend. The wireless router has been setup in my office room and yet, the signal strength in my room upstairs (at a near-diametrically-opposite place) is fairly decent enough for me to be able to browse at reasonable speeds.
The most important aspect of this whole setup is that, I am finally able to use the new laptop I purchased last January. You see, this new laptop came with Windows Vista and the USB modem that I was using till last week, was not being recognised by Vista. Main problem was the incompatible driver and since the USB modem supplied by my DSL internet service provider was manufactured at a remote village in Taiwan or Korea, the service provider had categorically told me that an upgrade of drivers was not possible.
I had no option but to go the WiFi route, but at that time, for some vague reason, I wasnt willing to shell out the money. So 5 months of deliberation and wasted hope later, I finally pushed Raghu to buy the equipment last weekend and he did the needful after going through a lot of hardship (which actually he seems to like!). He also came home and installed it in no time. I couldn't thank him properly that day, because of major plumbing issues at home.
Anyways, I am now posting this blog from my new laptop and using my WiFi connection. This is only the second post with this combination; the honor of being the first, goes to this post.
P.S.: Just in case you are wondering what Fort Knox has to do with this post, please be informed that we refer to my house as Fort Knox due to the security arrangements which to a normal person would appear too complicated, but in truth is not.
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