PikaPichu / Member

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New router

I got fed up with having to use my neighbors' wireless signals everytime I wanted to play my DS games online so I lowered the encryption on my Netgear router from WPA to WEP.

Of course something would go horribly wrong when I did. Something went awry and my router stopped working. Switching it back to WPA got it up and running again just fine. Granted that it's still covered under warranty, I wasn't in the mood for talking to a tech support rep in India for the next hourĀ  or so only to have him/her to tell me that there's something wrong with it and that I have to mail it somewhere and be without it for the next 1-2 months.

So, with my router being useless to me at that point, I decided to shop for another router. As luck would have it, CompUSA had a nice ****** wireless router on sale for $10 after MIR. I went out and bought it, brought it home and set it up. It's been about a week now and the router has been working perfectly without any problems whatsoever. I'm able to share files between my NAS and systems just fine and I can play games online just fine on my DS. That and now I'm sure that I'll be adequately prepared for the Wii.

Now I just have to work up the patience to call tech support for my old router.