Getting Connected

All our Internet problems appear to be over.

Our Verizon DSL started working again last Friday. Apparently Verizon oversold their service, and they need to upgrade their lines. The rumour is we may be having problems like this off and on for the next few months. I ran into a number of other Benton City-ites while I was haunting the library to use their internet who were having the same problem. One person said she heard the issue was statewide. So, this might not be a good time to sign on with Verizon, if you were considering it.

The next order of business was to hook up the wireless network. Clint managed to get the adapter card into the old computer with little difficulty, but whenever we hooked up the router, neither computer could access the internet. Tonight he decided to take one last stab at it, and got it up and running, with a little help from DLink's 24 hour tech support line.

So now we have two computers with access to the internet, plus the capability to have a future laptop computer in the bedroom or some other remote location in the house, also hooked up to the net. Isn't technology grand?

Clint is the man of the hour. He knows nothing about computers, but he's so patient, he was able to make it work!