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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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10 November 2002 - 11:58 pm
The wireless access point here in apartment 12 seems to be on its last legs. This is the second linksys wap that's died on me in the last 12 months. Avoid these things like the plague.
My secret suspicion regarding this thing is that its being done in by too much radiation. You see, because I'm both lazy and impatient, I decided that one microwave oven wasn't enough. So apartment 12 now sports two microwaves, and I often use both of them while preparing my meals. I mean, why wait twenty minutes for a meal when I can have the whole thing done in 10? But I am concerned that the increased radiation from what can only be described as a fairly cheap microwave has forever destroyed the sensitive electronics inside the wap. I only hope I'm not getting over-radiated. Just to be on the safe side, I think I'll skip the x-rays at my next dental appointment.
All this talk of radiation has reminded me of a chart all of my eight-grade science classmates and I received from Mr. Wiseman. It detailed the FDA's recommended radiation doses for one year. All that I recall from the chart is that if you had dental x-rays and rode on a plane in the same year, you were getting too much radiation. Which means all those full-head x-rays I got before I had surgery a few years ago probably put me over my lifetime limit. Mutant powers, here I come.
Posted by on 10 November 2002 at 11:58 PM
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Odd, I've had no trouble with my wireless Linksys router. I was disapointed that the wirelss part doesn't bridge AppleTalk, but other than that it's performed well.
I did hear that it broadcasts on a similar frequency as microwave ovens cook, so there could be a problem there as you pointed out.
Have you tried loading new firmware into it? I had a problem with our new Mac and the firmware upgrade fixed that.
Posted by rkc on 16 November 2002 - 10:28 AM