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Make it stop, make it stop! I’ve completely lost the ability to write on this damn thing. I had such great ideas! I was going to unleash my plan for world domination: phase 2. Ah well, maybe tomorrow.
My brother’s PC imploded the other day, actually it’s the second time its done this. Months ago it blew the psu out, smelly, so I gave him a spare that i had kicking around. Now the same thing has happened to that one. lol well I think that was the last straw ‘cos he’s thrown it out on the street and bought an iMac. Well, you’d be mad to replace a PC with well, another PC these days wouldn’t you.
Unfortunately his first day of mac ownership hasn’t gone exactly to plan and he made damn sure that I suffer along with him by making me stay on the phone all god damn day as if i’m some toll free mac support line.
Turns out there’s a bit of a snag with some of the core duo iMacs. The airport cards are going all freaky as per this discussion. You get atrocious speed from it, we tried everything, tinkering with the router, trying different encryption modes, all sorts, took hours. In the end the only fix we came across, if you can call it a fix, is to drop the router down to 802.11b only. Hmm, nice.
Funny thing is, as I was helping my brother out, searching the net for answers I discovered that things at my end were downloading freakily fast. Turns out my line has finally been upgraded to 10mbit! Woohoo! Now thats what I call a pleasant surprise. Telewest have been upgrading everyone who was on the 2mbit or 4mbit tarrif to 10mbit region by region since the new year. I’d almost completely forgotten about it it’s taken this long to reach me. Not that id complain, it’s a free upgrade.
God these downloads are fast, i’m surprised at how stable it is as well. Yikes. What was phase 1?
UPDATE:
Apparently it’s sorted now and he’s got it working on g. He moved the router, i guess the iMacs airport is just a little bit sensitive (or should that be un-sensitive). Still, there are a lot of ppl having problems with it over at apples discussion site.
