And the booster looks okay there now that the driver's installed.
Here's the text of the DU mail I was going to send you to keep my final embarrassment a little more private, until I decided to confess in public:
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Your halo's still on straight.
But there's egg all over my face. Seems my usual appearance. Oh, I do indeed have wireless now, but it's through the phone company. Thought I'd unplugged all their stuff and yet I remained connected to the router.
The driver download link was very helpful and actually installed. Trouble is, when I open Devices and Printers in Windows, the network adapter is still incommunicado. Or rather Windows is, because the computer icon's the one with the yellow triangle. Running the troubleshooters numerous times convinced me the sole remaining problem lies with Windows' ability to communicate to the signal booster. Obviously it knows of its existence or the booster icon wouldn't show up in Devices and Printers, where the computer icon hangs onto its little yellow triangle like a drowning person.
All this has been very trying for me, partly because I addressed it as a distraction from certain other life challenges. Smart, huh? Seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I've lost the damned packing slip and couldn't send the signal booster back if I tried, but I'm still going to give it a horrible review. It's listed as compatible with Win7 but I have to wonder. And those two worthless 'installation' discs aren't even fit for frisbees. I should've listened to all the people who complained instead of the ones who bragged about picking up signals over a mile away.
Here's the weirdest thing of all, though. When I THOUGHT Windows and the signal booster were finally well acquainted and I moved my computer over to the window to give the booster a real workout with the phone company modem absolutely disconnected, I kept checking for new internet connections every time I moved the booster (not the computer) just a little different. During all this I picked up a variety of signals, all weak but one new one unsecured, and that changed every time I moved the signal booster. With the computer remaining stationery. If the only working signal was from the one inside the computer, why did the almost-available connections change every time and only when I moved the external booster? Beats me.
But I still intend to shed myself of the phone company one way or the other, if I have to start schlepping down to the library where they do offer free wi-fi even though on their wired computers you can't have email. Go figure. It's only 3 blocks away, the walk's not too bad in decent weather. I'd just hate having to keep their hours and also needing to leave my dogs indoors because of the nasty neighbor who loves to call in noise complaints on anybody's dogs that let out one little peep. Three times I caught him leaning over the fence and waving his arms and yelling at my chows to stir them up so he could run inside and call in a noise complaint. You can imagine what a town hall meeting we had that month! But I still have to be able to verify that my dogs are innocent of his complaints. Well, at least during the winter the pom-mini beagle and the JRT I have now will want to be indoors more, I guess. Maybe by next spring my troubles will be over.
Thanks again. It must try your patience to deal with the tech goofs. When I used to give horseback riding lessons, I swear some of those people would've wound up seated backwards if I didn't grab hold of them. And I was getting paid!
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