Goodbye, Internet; I am about to stab my very noisy whiny router with something blunt but dense in order to cause as much damage as possible. Or possibly just turn it off.
When I need to take another break, I will turn it on again in order to do research on a replacement router, because I can’t take this thing much longer. It sounds like I’m working next to a vacuum cleaner. It somehow was left on for four days straight while we were gone (although I could have sworn I turned it off like I do every night, being obsessive about things like that, particularly before a long weekend away) and we came home to the thing sounding like it was revving up to take off from Cape Canaveral, complete with threatening an explosion midair. It’s worse than it’s ever been, and I want to kill it dead dead dead because it’s getting into my brain and I can’t make it stop. Not even playing Zombie Chickens at top volume masks it.
So joy: a new router gets added to my list of things I need to buy for the computer when my cheque comes in, right below that new stick of RAM.
Thus why it was banished from my office and why the new somewhat quieter one resided in M-SB’s office closet! Just so you know… they ALL make a whine. Depending on how sensitive you are will determine how much it will piss you off. I can hear a monitor on 3 rooms away. So, the subtle whine of a router makes me crazy. In a closet closed off has been the BEST solution. Nice and quiet.
No, this one is insanely loud now. It used to be much quieter. I know they all make some sort of whine (all electronics do), but this is no subtle whine: it is a loud I-am-dying kind of rattling whirr. I know this rattling whirr intimately, because it is the sound my power supply made before it ultimately bit the dust, and the sound my second hard drive also made as its swan song. You’d be snarling and beating it with a bottle of Advil as soon as you walked into my office. I’m not kidding about it sounding like a vacuum cleaner.
Tal sent a router over to me this evening, but my system won’t connect with it for some reason.
Hmmm… better check with the original owner, El ADZO. Who knows WHAT funky cybersuperness he’s done to it?
hey hey hey, that’s a loaner. no killing it. I can always just unplug the fan and see what happens. It’s only running three connectiosn so I doubt it would over heat anything drastic.
We can do that? Just unplug the fan? Oh gods, please, yes.
(I’m only using two connections, actually. Out of the 24 we could possibly be using. So yes, unplugging a fan would do zero harm, I’m thinking.)
I think I may buy that new RAM on my way to pick up the boy tonight as well. Feel like doing geeky tech stuff this evening, or are you busy?