[OFB Cafe] Near Miss

[Rick]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Don Spoon <drspoon at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Last Saturday night my WAP quit working.  For me this is a "big deal", in
> that I have come to rely upon it.  It allows me to be "lazy" and a total
> couch potato.  I slowly descended down to the basement where it was located.
>  Everything "looked" OK but  just in case, I reset it. I slowly and
> laboriously climbed back up to my laptop to check it out... NADA.
>
> Back to the Basement...  reconfigured everything and tried again.  Still
> NADA.   The wife had been watching all this and inquired if something was
> wrong.  "My world as I know it has ended!  The Wireless thingy is broken", I
> replied.  Since I had given her some shiney baubles for Christmas that she
> took a liking to, she has been remarkably "compliant' since.  "Can you get a
> new one tomorrow?" she asks.
> HOT DIGGITY!  I have a license to get a new wireless router!  With all the
> recent talk of Gigabit Wireless Routers, I stayed in the basement for the
> remainder of night shopping.  I settled on a D-Link-655 Gigabit "N" Wireless
> Router with a 4 port switch being sold at Best Buy for $99.99.
> Best Buy opens up at 11 A.M. here, so I grabbed a bit of sleep.  I saddled
> up "Silver" the wonder SUV and prepared the fastest route to the Best Buy,
> where the prize was located, on my new  GPS.  After a hearty breakfast I was
> ready to go procure the object of my desire!  Just before leaving I fired up
> the laptop and tried to connect again... just to be sure.  While I couldn't
> connect, I noticed that all my neighbor;s WAPs were up and running.  In
> addition there was a new one called "Linksys" that had a right powerful
> signal at my laptop!  Hrmm...  The default essid for my WRT54GS was
> "Linksys" and I had changed it to "spoon".  Just for grins, I tried to
> connect to "Linksys" with my old "key".  IT WORKED!
>
> Bummer!  I seems like the essid had been reset, but nothing else.  Beats me
> how that happened.  If it had been a system reset, it seems likely that
> everything including the key would have been reset to the defaults.  Wonder
> if I got hacked??
>
> Anyway, I am back to the old setup.  NO new Gigabit Wirelss Router :-(
>  Being Obsessive-Compulsive has its disadvantages.
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
>
Whew! I'm glad I read the whole posting. At first I thought you were
contemplating a gender change operation -- "Near *Miss*".

I guess that's what happens when someone as anal as I am pays too close
attention to capitalization ;-)

~Rick
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