Just when you think you have reached the level of maximum geekiness, you step it up a notch.
I work making visual effects for Hollywood movies, that is pretty geeky.
I am a mature aged student studying Computer Science, reading pure math on a Sunday, that is pretty geeky.
I have participated in a Community Wireless Networking group Air-Stream in fact I designed their logo, that is pretty geeky.
As a result I happened upon having a DSL router, that is made by Cisco that brings the internet into my home.
I bought it second hand off ebay in November 2014.
Installing that and being able to navigate Cisco’s operating system IOS is a pretty high level of geeky.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2333379
But when said modem starts playing up, and switch it off and switch it off again gets too annoying.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2425478
You COULD throw is away and get a new one.
OR you could google the hell out of the issue and find out about which capacitors are worn out.
see this thread here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1737576
So this afternoon I will head to the local Jaycar and see if I can get my hands on
6800µF 105°C 6.3V 15mm Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor for under $5 each.
Then on Wednesday night, I am going to turn up to the local hackspace after work and see if I can have a crack at soldering in the new parts.
Then I will be back to the previous glory of this
Why just have the internet when you can solder your own internet together.
Today’s life is all too prefabricated.
I got a recipe for coconut and pumpkin soup.
The recipe asked for a can of pumpkin.
I only had a pumpkin grown in the neighbour’s back yard given to us as a gift.
Needless to say I was still able to make the recipe without getting the pumpkin put into a metal can and shipped half way around the world.
Make your own pumpkin soup, make your own internet better.