Red Warrior's Journal: Mean time between failures

The Comcast guy was very pleasant, professional, helpful, etc today. Didn't directly fix my problems. Directly. He did rule out actual transport layer issues. It was NOT the fault of the comcast network. Got a new modem, some new splitters, and a new length of cable out of it though. :-)

Since I'd rebuilt the laptop from the ground up (from fdisk), that left only the actual, physical hardware. Connected the CAT5 to both the docking station and the laptop with the same results. Leaving only my internal network card.

However, once I disabled my LAN card, my wireless 802.11G took over seamlessly. :-)
Not quite as fast as before, but much faster than I actually need. And secured, so, eh.

I've got a spare PCI slot, but it would appear that one actually needs to search to find a PCI WIRED network card in this new-fangled year. I expect the intarwebs will deliver what I want. Now, I just need to replace the RAM so that it actually responds snappily. (currently two 256MEG PC2700 DDR SDRAM chips occupying the two slots.)

Then it should be good until the next failure.
Bought it in Jan/Feb 2004, so 36 months.
I suppose it's too much to hope for that I get 18 months before the next?

Want one?

[(H)elix1]

I think I have a stack of PCI 3com Ethernet cards around here.

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[Red Warrior]

Absolutely! Check email. :-)

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[(H)elix1]

back at you...

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[nocomment]

I *KNOW* I've got a stack as well. I've got the bonus of being in Washington. Federal Way to be precise (though I'm at work in Kent ATM).

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[Red Warrior]

Thanks. (H)elix is already sending, but I appriciate the offer, especially as I will be dropping $300 on a RAM upgrade ($260 after rebates....). Owww. For just a few bucks more I could buy a freaking computer with the same amount or RAM....

We should meet up sometime soon IRL. There are a number of people in the circle in the south sound area, and I don't think there's been a meetup for a few years now.

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[(H)elix1]

Wow. You putting in 4x1G SIMS, 2G SIM, or some overclocking RAM? Just be warned there are some gotchas if you go 4G on a 32-bit OS.

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[Red Warrior]

I was gonna but in 2 1G sims for a total of 2G, but I talked myself down to 2 512 chips.
Still double the RAM., but much less than half the price of 2G.