About a year ago, Mr. Snark replaced all three of our wireless routers with cheap devices that cost half as much as the originals. Since then, we've experienced nothing but issues in the far flung reaches of the house. Children complain and reset routers constantly.
Not too long ago, one of the hard drives on our raid went bad and a flaw was revealed in our supposedly double-redundant backup system when a lot of our music files vanished.
Last weekend the family went to Disneyland. Long periods of being trapped together in the car produce conversations that go something like this:
Mrs. Snark: "Have you fixed our raid yet?"
Mr. Snark: "No, not yet."
Mrs. Snark: "Doesn't living without data security make you feel like you're having sex without a condom in the middle of an AIDS epidemic?
Mr. Snark: "..."
Mrs. Snark: "And what about our wireless network? Have you fixed it yet?"
Mr. Snark: "No, not yet."
Mrs. Snark: "I'm starting to feel like I married some IT guy from India instead of you."
Mr. Snark (face contorted): "I'll get online and start building an equipment list tonight."
May the force be with you. We have been through all kinds of router hell. I even spoke to an IT guy from India with a barely intelligible accent. Then our wireless internet got hacked by a neighbor (as yet unknown) and we the geek squad had to go through hoops to block them from rerouting our signal.
ReplyDeleteBeth,
DeleteThanks. Our router woes have been ongoing. Mr. Snark is a software engineer so he's supposed to be able to fix these sorta things. *fingers crossed* Sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope they got it fixed.
Uh...that's not how you are supposed to go to 'the happiest place on Earth', lol. I hope things improve!
ReplyDeleteElf,
DeleteActually, it was on the way home. We were tired and grumpy. But Mr. Snark and I are both naturally very cagey people. *G*