Close but no cigar - yet (Helllllp!)

[IrishAyes]

8. Your help was critical, and I believe that's the driver I downloaded

Had hell trying to make the software accept it and then for Windows to communicate properly. But as of Tuesday evening, all's relatively settled down. Good thing too because I was going batty and wrote a furious review of the Signal King device which the seller demanded a retraction. I told her hell no. She said I was in violation of policy and I told her essentially to go sun herself on a hot rock. By now she's more than familiar with the drawbacks of the product, and when she continues to praise and sell it for golden, she's just as much to blame as the manufacturer.

It was only this evening that the connection's been stable at all, and it remains slow as mud. I know my hosting friend's not on dial up because this entire town got wired for high speed internet a couple years ago. But piggybacking on his wireless signal via this alleged signal booster slows down transmission to the old dial up speed. I could take a nap during page changes and have to keep the networks connections page handy because it drops connections right and left too. Then I just have to kick it in the ribs again and wait for things to reload.. and wait... and wait...

I appreciate my friend's generosity but intend to abandon him the very second finances allow. Meanwhile, tell me: do you think the dipole radio booster antenna I bought would help with the computer problem at all since wi-fi is radio waves after all. If so, how?