Thursday, February 17, 2005

My Love and Hate Relationship with 'W'

I'm sure my friends will raise their eyebrows so high when they read this entry's title. No friends. Don't hold that thought.

'W' is not a person's initial. 'W' is a name given to my office's wireless network. When it's behaving, I'm on cloud 9. The broadband makes things easy. I'll be browsing the internet in between doing my work. Yeah right! As the saying goes, 'sambil menyelam minum air'.

But 'W' is very temperamental. Sometimes I can't get any connection until I change and re-change some settings. Sometimes I can see 'W' but can't get connected. Sometimes I can't see it anywhere, no matter how many times I reboot the server or my notebook. Today, it has been doing fine the whole morning when it suddenly decided it wanted to go off.

When I can see 'W' but can't get connected, I'm still OK because it means 'W' is still around. I just have to figure out how to get to it. But today, after 'W' deciding to turn itself off, no matter what I do, I can't see it anywhere. What happen? I don't remember pressing any wrong button and still 'W' decided to go away? In fact I didn't press any button for it to be wrong. How can 'W' leave me just like that? I need you all the time OK. Checking the server, the router, didn't give me much clue anyway.

Now, who should I blame? I don't need an 'Idiots guide to set W at client'. At least I don't think so. But now I'm not so sure. Where else 'W' can be hiding? Maybe an idiot's guide can reveal the possible places where 'W' can be hiding eh.

WWWwwwww..........

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