Re: did I screws up router?

heheheh. nooooo!
my roommates are 3 other guys, the homeowner has several dogs and the place is swamp cooled (no air conditioning here). Its next to impossible to keep ahead of things here. THe entire place needs a good hard cleaning. about the only room that is clean is mine (it has to be, as a blind person, I wouldn't be able to find things if it weren't).

-eric

On Aug 10, 2015, at 6:38 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:12:32 -0700
> Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> I must have gotten lucky here. I have been using the same router and
>> same cable modem for about the last 8 years or so. Its an older model
>> Linksys (part of the same knows project). I am going to hate when
>> either of those devices finally break.
>
> I bet your house has very good climate control, you have no pets, you
> dust and vacuum regularly, and either have no kids or have these
> electronics well away from any kids, and you've done a neat cabling job
> to keep cables out of the way.
>
> We live in Florida, half the time our air conditioner is busted, have
> kids and pets, I'm the world's worst cabler, and we're not good
> housekeepers. Our electronics break at a prodigious rate.
>
> We have 22 year old triplets, and we're probably bought them a total of
> 10 laptops in the last 5 years. What teen agers do to laptops, you
> don't even want to know. 8 hours a day running on the bed. Ventilation?
> What's that? Oops, I dropped my laptop. Oops, I forgot to unplug my
> laptop and walked away, and now the place to plug in the power is
> wobbly. Oops!
>
> Luckily, I'm good at repairing things.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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