Sooo, wireless-N

Last week I did some computer work for a family. Long-Story short, I was paid with a D-Link 615 Wireless N Router. After a day or two I finally decided to give it a whirl. I initially thought about just using it as my sole router but then later realized 2 is better than one. So I disabled the DCHP funtion, gave it an I.P. and within an hour, I had 2 functioning WLAN's. The old one was configured with WEP (which is the worst, might as well be unprotected) and the new is WPA with AES encryption and EXCLUSIVELY N. It connects at 140mbps which is awesome, but realistically transfers around wired which is 100mbps. Still, it's three times faster than 54mbps. Before it was around 2~2.5 MBs, now it's rocking at 7~8MBs. Makes those big file/DVD rip transfer a lot less time consuming. Now I just need a was to seal them off from one another. Because if you can crack the WEP network, it's just an IP address away from accessing the new router and changing the settings. But I'll save that for another day. Overall, I'm happy. Happy that I didn't have to gamble on this purchase and happy that I can confidently report that N works and is worth it IF you have a N capable adapter and you transfer lots of files over the network, IE stream HD content from a server... to 2 or 3 places at a time... though if you are doing that, the Wireless Network will be the least of you hardware troubles... (I.E. NEED RAID.)

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Late.



...And I want to see Transformers 2 again. I haven't seen a movie twice in the theatres since... The Phantom Menace. Almost Ten Years ago. It's been on my mind for the past 2 days, though listening to the musical score is probably doing that. I'm half tempted to see it through "nefarious" means, but I've become somewhat of a quality snob and can't be bothered with the offerings at the moment. Oh, well, this may well be my first Blu-Ray... and I don't have a stand-alone nor BD-ROM yet... yet. But I'm assured my puny 32" won't do it justice, so I may just wait... or not.