A quiet lazy day today, with a brief afternoon trip to the office in Los Boliches to get on-line, and pick up a loaf of bread. When I returned, Peter announced that he'd installed a new dual band Netgear router and a range extender. He'd ordered the new router from Amazon last week, and to his amazement it arrived in two days, despite a warning it could take five. Installation was only a problem because of the difficulty obtaining the necessary broadband access codes to configure the device.
His service providor's antiquated router wasn't an uncommon make, but its default user name and password to allow access to the innards of the device had been changed presumably to stop unauthorised people fiddling about. He had to ring a help-line in order to hear a robotic voice reading out the pass code, each letter punctuated by the Spanish word minรบscula, meaning 'lower case'. It was quite a challenge, but success came after much attentive listening, followed by trial and error. I was also impressed he'd managed the robotic menu in Spanish, let alone the spelling test.
This arrangement works perfectly and the signal is good all over the house. So I now have the luxury of sitting indoors and looking out over the garden at the Wisteria flourishing on top of the pergola, while I prepare the next Lent course session and start remote planning for Holy Week. Now I can catch up on the Archers on-line. Such a treat!
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