Andrews Family

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, but I still stumble once in a while. A couple of months ago, after helping Lisa repair her WiFi setup, I decided that I should make my WiFi more secure and switch the security on my router from using WEP to WPA2. WEP is good enough for those that aren’t ultra-paranoid, but not truely 100% secure. The only problem was that my Wii wouldn’t work with the router using WPA2 unless I updated the firmware. So I updated and everything worked. Or so I thought. After a while, I started noticing that the laptop would drop the wireless connection frequently, or even worse it, would just be really slow. I decided that the firmware upgrade was the culprit, but to make matters worse, only the latest version of the firmware was availabe on the manufacturer’s website so I couldn’t downgrade. Fortunately, someone else who had already been through this posted an old version of the firmware on their website. So now after a quick downgrade, we are back up with fast, stable WiFi.

Wish me luck when I try to upgrade Wordpress on this site in the near future.