Assorted Tech Changes
It's been more than two years since my old desktop computer died, but I hadn't bought anything to replace it. The combination of my magic phone and M's old laptop handled all of our computer needs. Extremely rarely (like twice a year) the old laptop, which runs Vista and stopped having updates years ago, fails to handle a newer website that doesn't have that much backwards browser compatibility baked in, and I'd do something at work.
Now that we're in the age of coronavirus, and more specifically the age of working from home, I've got my work laptop here as well. That freed up M's laptop for her to work from home, but unsurprisingly the work she needed to do from home was challenging, to say the least, on a 14 (or so) year old laptop. As a result, she bought herself a shiny new iPad and a keyboard, which has been working out well for her.
On top of that, I realized that my old wifi router, which dates back to when I was living with Micah in Coventry in 2004, was not really cutting it from a speed perspective for work meetings. There's been several advances in wifi tech since then (it had outdated security and I think it only supported 802.11g, which is slow AND three standards out of date), so I ordered a new router which just arrived and will get set up shortly. That finally killed my old NokWald network, which I never renamed after we split. If Micah reads this, I guarantee he'll shake his head and sigh.
And for extra fun, we had internet problems at the house over the last weekend. The good news is that tethering to our phones meant we could still work at home. AT&T came out on Tuesday, tightened some cables where they attached to the house and gave us a new modem. Combined that seemed to fix the problem. Naturally, this modem, unlike my old one, has wifi built in, although the wifi routeer I bought has much better range and more features so I'll still be setting that up.
That's an awful lot of technology changes for a two week period. And I still don't actually own a new computer myself. 1992 Nathan is very confused.
Now that we're in the age of coronavirus, and more specifically the age of working from home, I've got my work laptop here as well. That freed up M's laptop for her to work from home, but unsurprisingly the work she needed to do from home was challenging, to say the least, on a 14 (or so) year old laptop. As a result, she bought herself a shiny new iPad and a keyboard, which has been working out well for her.
On top of that, I realized that my old wifi router, which dates back to when I was living with Micah in Coventry in 2004, was not really cutting it from a speed perspective for work meetings. There's been several advances in wifi tech since then (it had outdated security and I think it only supported 802.11g, which is slow AND three standards out of date), so I ordered a new router which just arrived and will get set up shortly. That finally killed my old NokWald network, which I never renamed after we split. If Micah reads this, I guarantee he'll shake his head and sigh.
And for extra fun, we had internet problems at the house over the last weekend. The good news is that tethering to our phones meant we could still work at home. AT&T came out on Tuesday, tightened some cables where they attached to the house and gave us a new modem. Combined that seemed to fix the problem. Naturally, this modem, unlike my old one, has wifi built in, although the wifi routeer I bought has much better range and more features so I'll still be setting that up.
That's an awful lot of technology changes for a two week period. And I still don't actually own a new computer myself. 1992 Nathan is very confused.