My attention constantly gets divided because the Wi-Fi goes out every second, I plan to buy a cable that is 20 feet so the laptop in the bedroom can get ethereal cable. I'm done with Wi-Fi. You know something is wrong when there's two-three people for every numbers of apartments with a Wi-Fi account. At 5:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., my laptop is inaccessible since they are crowding it. Even turning off the Wi-Fi over and over doesn't work. My building has some elderly people who are home all day like me, a few young families, and a few middle-aged codgers like us. Maybe there are lots of unemployed people now, who are turning to the internet for solace. The slow grind of the economy on it's burning and crashing may be why everyone is turning into Internet addicts, who stay up all night to argue on message boards or play video games and sleep all day.
If I was healthy I'd probably still have blogs, but I'd be going and doing something and living life. Maybe they have no money and are all unemployed and stuck at home. Maybe there's a secret LAN in here or something of gamers eating up every bandwidth in sight. I'm on the sit up computer on cable now but my time on these is limited because when husband gets home, he needs it for work and to write an article. If you have ideas about how to fix Wi-Fi, I am open to them.
I don't use the computer much, its usually just in the morning, then I'm off. Sometimes during the day and at night, but rarely. I remember when computers first came out, I remember it was a hateful task, there was no windows program just that hateful black screen with green printing.
ReplyDeleteI think going on computers are affordable now, and its no wonder that people go on them, to pass the time, or addicts.
I'm online probably a bit too much but part of that is being disabled. The other tasks though are taking far more time. I spent 4 hours just puttering around cleaning up papers and resting yesterday afternoon and spent an entire hour just making dinner and another half eating it so there always seems to be a shortage of time even though I have no job which I know sounds weird. Yeah I remember the hateful black screens with the green printing and endless prompt commands which I barely could remember and gag puke BASIC....
DeleteYeah it's more affordable now even get old used computers. I have a VISTA laptop I got for free from one of those school disposals.
Hi Peep,I was struggling with the same problem, then I switched my cell phone from T-Mobile to Metro PCS. They include a free hot spot. I use my phone as a hot spot, works great, I do that a lot now whenever wi-fi is too clogged with other people using it. Incredibly simple to use. Hope that is helpful.
DeleteI am on a comcast laptop but I will remember that about the cell phone Joan. I hope my internet works today, my concentration for articles etc, is constantly being broken, it drives me nuts. That is a good idea.
DeleteYes, The hotspot is free, I pay $30 a month for my cellphone service (prepaid) and they also gave me a free smartphone because I switched over, I called them first to ask about the deal and they told me over the phone and the next day I went in and switched. Doesn't hurt to try! Good luck whatever you do!
Deletethanks, i may look up the hotspot stuff, actually never heard of that brand but it is possible I just don't know about it.
DeleteDo you have to enter a password to access your wifi connection? If not, you NEED to set up a password. This will prevent anyone else from using your connection. Whether the other people in your building use the internet or not should NOT affect your connection if it's protected properly. If you search the brand of your router you should find some instructions on setting up a password.
ReplyDeleteAlso, go here to test your connection speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ Then check the fineprint on your internet plan and make sure you're getting the speed you're paying for - some companies throttle their customers' speed.
Finally, get a good, free antivirus program (I use the free version of Panda Antivirus). If there's a malware program that's secretly hogging your connection that might route it out.
I am under constant attack to divide band width with any number of adolescent twitters and kids apprising the globe about each and every bowel movement.
ReplyDeleteEver get on the computer at the local library and see the dumb crap people are doing online. We aren't talking Rhodes Scholars. 50 percent of the time it seemed to be porn years ago until the librarians figured out how to block all that.
DeleteI routinely get kicked off sometime around 9AM for about an hr. and then again some time around 5 PM. M-F. Weekends are a free for all brawl over bandwidth. What choice?! There isn't any! Hell, at least a third of this huge remote area has no internet at all and we had nothing but dial up until a few years ago. Internet cafe? What's that?! Hot spots? Either a forest fire or some one with the measles.
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My getting kicked off the internet matches the plebe work schedule too, the weekends are the worse for me too. If husband's computer was not on cable, we'd already be homeless. What gets me is once I woke up at 3 am and still got cut off, sheesh. I miss internet cafes. I used to go to them. The library isn't that much of an option for the poor when you get your 30 minutes and a long line. LOL about the Hot spots.
Deletesorry,what i wrote was maybe a little bit confusing. the hot spot is not a separate device, it's a function of the phone itself. you just turn on the hotspot on the phone and set it next to your laptop and it works exactly the same way as wi-fi does. i got it because i'm too poor to afford internet or cable tv in my apartment.
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