After having trouble with CNS News and Media Research, I noticed a few other sites I've been having trouble reaching. It wasn't the computers, so I tried removing the router and hooking the PC directly to the internet. Whaddayaknow, it worked. As it turns out, there was something faulty with the router.

After about an hour of trying to fix the router, I gave up and bought a new Linksys Wireless G (with Speedboost) router. It's humming away fine, and everything seems to be working okay. My only criticism is that Linksys doesn't give you a fully functional DHCP server. It will do DHCP, but the braintrusts at Linksys don't think you would ever need to set up IP reservations. I had an IP reservation set up for my server and my printserver. With the printserver, I simply hardcoded the IP to get it working. But if I assign an IP to the server I also need to configure the DNS, which brings it's own problems with the ISP's DNS servers changing IPs every so often. Basically, I'm disappointed with the Linksys and in hindsight, probably should have bought Netgear instead.

My laptop is in the shop right now, but when it gets back, hopefully the speedboost and 802.11G technology will make it worth while.