Pete’s Blog

Tried to settle in today. Apartment is on the 15 floor downtown and right outside the window there’s a LED sign. Makes me feel right at home a sign with weather, time, etc.. viewable from my living room.

Tried to setup a network, and I must have mixed up the transformer, and instead of a 5V supply it was 12V. Router became a paperweight. Luckily my boss gave me a travel router as a holiday gift, and I brought it along. Actually a really cool device. It’s a linksys WTR54GS travel router. Just as I was thinking through how to have rig it up as a wireless repeater using the WET11 in the closet, I found this think could connect up to a wireless network and rebroadcast it’s own network. In any case, it came in handy to get the network working in the apartment. Was able to get the Dell laptop, the MacBook Pro, iPhone and a wired Buffalo NAS play together. I’m getting less than 10 mbps throughput, which is fine for Internet, but really painful when I try to import allot of media into iTunes. Why do I need gapless playback analysis??? It’s something that can be fixed with a small gig switch, which is now on it’s way from Buy.com.

Here’s some views of the apartment

Here’s the all in one unit. It washes and dries. takes a really long time and only fits a couple articles of clothes.

Here’s the view from the living room

2 days in and so far so good.

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