Saving my home network

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Dec 282011
 

I spent almost two hours to sort out what’s the best wifi network solution for me – I have two Linksys and one Airport Express, obviously too many options gave me too much troubles to do all tests.

Finally I turn one (older), Linksys WRT54G2, running 802.11 B and G, and the other one (newer), E1000, running 802.11 N, it looks good so far.

I had to take the Kindle Fire all around the house to figure out the signal strength is good enough everywhere that I used to stay, it’s amazing that now we have so many mobile devices to deal with all sort of stuffs.

Also I found that I have way to many wireless devices at home – 3 laptops, 4 mobile phones, 2 eReaders (Kindle and Bambook), 2 game consoles, 2 Pads (iPad and Kindle Fire) and 1 television. I wish I didn’t miss anything. I’ve already raise the limit of DHCP client from 20 to 50 to avoid potential boost clients in case of party time or something similar, wish everybody comes in only with one mobile phone, hehe.

Kindle fire

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Dec 282011
 

Ok, let’s talk about kindle fire.

It’s cheaper than most Android based tablets (now they are called Pad), but it is powerful enough to be a daily pad for me – email, reading, surfing, and occasional gaming. The screen is big enough to make reading experience comfortable, while it is small enough to slide into my pockets.

Something not quite good – it’s heavy, and hard to hold tightly in hands. I think I need to get a good case to make it easy to hold. Also, lack of Chinese input method is another issue. People posted several ways to get it, but I’d rather like to wait for Amazon’s next update.