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Bough a airport express from amazon, shouldn’t be as loud as MSI Nettop 100. Should sell MSI Nettop 100, will keep the hard drive if I do that though. It was only $107 with one day shipping, amazon prime is nice. Could use it for wireless too, then sell trendnet wireless N router, already have linksys router running dd-wrt, keeping that, it is only wireless G though. Guess it could act as a wireless bridge, but going to hook it up to receiver for music.

Maybe it won’t freeze anymore now. If it still does, then it might be the hard drive, or USB wireless N card, or something else. Hard to say, if its the hard drive, I’ll wait till it dies, and then send it back if its still under warranty. Still have the old drive that came with mini.

Hmm dell just released a new netbook that you can configure with a touch screen, and you can get it with either ubuntu or windows. Hmm when clicking link it wants to know my segment though… I guess I can’t buy it then. I’m not in any of those segments.

Hmm just noticed the Dell Mini 10v is only $299… Damn it, not even going to open aspire one now, just going to send it back. You can get either ubuntu or windows on it. Wait if you add 6 cell battery same price, but you can get wireless N, so better deal, no need to use USB wireless N if you want wireless N. You can get it built in on the dell…

My sister said her computer is crashing a lot, thinking it might of been all the dust in there. Used vacuum cleaner to get it all out, or at least all the chunks out. Should of asked when is it freezing, like just browsing internet, or playing a game etc. Its still running a virus scan, and it hasn’t crashed for me yet. After the scan I’ll give it back to her. Also finally plugged in the other wireless N card I bought a long time ago into her computer, she had old wireless G card in there, that only connects to router because I changed the xmit power or whatever. I think that card got messed up when I was trying to get it to work in linux along time ago. I don’t have any use for this extra wireless N card I bought, when I bought them they were on sale for $20, now around $30, so I bought two. That is what I was going to do anyways, give other one to sister. Now all computers are on D-Link router, it’ll be funny if when she plays world of warcraft if it crashes shitty D-Link router, might have to reboot boot is daily till I get new trendnet wireless N router.

Damn D-Link 615 router isn’t very stable. Sometimes iPod touch will disconnect mac from internet. Just rebooted it and changed the channel, now Airfoil seems to be working right. I got it for $29.99 from compusa.com. Hmm wonder if this router lets you assign IPs to different mac addresses, like D-Link. Hopefully it does. Read you can put D-Link firmware on it.

Update
Not on sale anymore. Good thing I’m on their mailing list, signed up for it sometime ago, probably when entering a sweepstake from em.

Damn thing crashed, it can’t handle to much local network traffic, otherwise it’ll crap out. At least revision A. Mom’s computer was copying an almost 4 GB file to it from linkstation, and then I was trying to play on xbox live, and got started lagging like hell, and then disconnected, went upstairs and the file transfer crapped out too. Had to reboot the POS. Won’t be buying any $40 wireless N routers again. Wouldn’t buy a linksys as their support sucks ass, if you ever have to deal with em. I had a wireless G game adapter made by em, updated firmware, and then it no longer worked, their shitty update broke it. And even if I sent it back under warranty, I doubt I’d have any luck getting a working one. The apple airport extreme might be the best wireless N router.

No point in buying a new router yet. Will just wait for her computer to finish copying the file before trying to do anything that uses a lot of bandwidth.

From Boxee Setup

From Boxee Setup

Put xubuntu and boxee on my MSI Wind Nettop 100, plays 720p perfectly fine, at least everything I tried, tv doesn’t do 1080p, does 1080i though. There’s a bug in boxee, it crashes sometimes when playing an audio file, really annoying. Oh yeah put the boxee remote app on iPod touch, and changed wireless N router to mixed mode, so I can use iPod touch with boxee. Also bought a D-Link gigabyte switch, so I can have linkstation and MSI Wind Nettop 100 connected by gigabyte speeds. That came yesterday too, and works fine. It has a rebate according to amazon, but to lazy to fill that out, don’t care about rebate.

Bought a D-Link DIR-615 for $39.99, at buy.com, that is the price shipped, free shipping, and no tax. Thinking maybe I should of bought the DIR-625, but I don’t really care, they all have mixed reviews, hard to say, if its because the person setting it up, is a complete dumbass, or they got a bad product. The other computers in the house won’t be upgraded, they aren’t mine, bought a Newer Technology MAXPower 802.11n/g/b USB Adapter for my mac, from macsales.com. That USB adapter was more then the router. Don’t think anything has been shipped yet, not in a big hurry. Hopefully it’ll be faster to copy data over wifi to linkstation. Keeping old router hooked up as it is, not replacing it. We’ll have two routers, I’ll be the only one connected to the N router, probably should put it in N mode only.

Oh yeah and the linksys wireless N routers, have mixed reviews to, and they are more expensive, so I’ll take my chance with D-Link. Oh yeah and I don’t want to spend over $100, if I did, I’d just buy an Apple Airport Extreme router.

Hmm now amazon has the DIR-615 for $39.99, wasn’t when I ordered, or right after I ordered, with amazon I’d have to pay tax though. But then could return it easier maybe. Never had to return anything to buy.com, hopefully I won’t have to. How come there’s only 2 left in stock at amazon? If its such a bad router? Some of the reviews on amazon, don’t say what the problems are, so it isn’t helpful. So just ignore the reviews that are by morons, that don’t say what the problem is, they just say its garbage, they don’t give a clear reason as to why. Guess the clear reason is their a dumbass.

Hopefully I don’t get revision A, it appears to have many problems, if you read reviews.

Hmm says router shipped, guess they didn’t email me that yet, think USB adapter shipped to. Was thinking maybe I should cancel it, and pay more for linksys. Ahh well hopefully I’ll get lucky, and it’ll work.

FedEx says I should get router on the 14th, good reason to get free shipping, doesn’t take as long as they say.

If I got a linksys router, then I might be able to put DD-WRT on it, I think you can put DD-WRT on some of linksys wireless N routers. One review says if you put DD-WRT on it, then it’ll be stable. But then you’d think the default firmware should work, I think I also read that voids the warranty.

Maybe I should of got a gigabyte switch, and a long ethernet cable, and have my mac connected to the gigabyte switch, and the linkstation connected to switch. That would be faster then wireless. And maybe cheaper too. Ahh well already bought the wireless router, and USB adapter.

Maybe if the router is crap, I’ll go wired for myself. But the wireless USB adapter will probably work, wait, since it works with OS X, then maybe I’ll turn Aspire One into hackintosh, built in wireless doesn’t work with OS X, or at least that’s what I’ve read.