Posting from the Brian Room
Signing on from the Brian room.
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We’ve got wires running through the wall from the living room, into this cool surface-mount patch box I found at Radio Shack. It takes modular snap-in connectors, so it’s flexible and I didn’t have to hand-wire any wires into any connectors. We’ve got the cable modem plugged into a router (from my old home network in New Jersey), and my computer plugged into the router in the living room, Brian’s connected to the patch box in the Brian room, and both computers are on the internet. (We’re not using WiFi because we get a faster connection — 100mbs — hard wiring the computers to the router, and the router to the cable modem, than we would with wireless. Also, Brian has an older Macintosh that’s not WiFi ready, and I don’t want to deal with that.)
I think I’ve accomplished the big stuff I set out to do in the apartment today, so Brian’s stuff can move in tomorrow.
- All of my crap is out of the Brian room.
- The baker’s racks are down in the basement (for Miguel, the super, sort of like a tip).
- Window shade installed in the Brian room.
- Internet connectivity in the Brian room.
I didn’t return the extra parts, for a refund, to the Container Store. I’ll do that tomorrow.
Brian and his mom got his old apartment almost completely packed. The movers come in the morning.