Every once in a while, after managing to save some cash, I just end up spending it all without realizing it. Well, lately, with all these deals on video games ($9.99 for 1080 Avalanche, $4.99 clearance sale at Circuit City), and of course Target clearance deals and eBay bidding, I ended up spending a lot. 😛
So much for saving money for Comic-Con this month.
Anyway, I really like the things I got today. The first is a new Microsoft Wireless Base Station/Router (MN-700). With this, I was able to upgrade my network from 802.11b to 802.11g… finally! Well, not completely upgrade. I still need to get a PC card for my laptop, then I’ll be all set, but my current PC card will do for now. 🙂
Even though it doesn’t seem to have as strong a signal strength (in my house, anyway) compared to my old Netgear MR-314, my Xbox Wireless Adapter works a lot faster now, since that was 802.11g to begin with. There’s no more lag when I’m streaming stuff off my PC to watch with Xbox Media Center. Now I don’t have to pause the video to wait for the Xbox to download more from the PC. It’s better now… I’m happy with my purchase… and it was a pretty good price too. Since MS isn’t going to be making any more wireless products and they discontinued their current line of wireless networking stuff, this was on clearance so I snatched one up. 😀
I posted about this earlier… and it came today! Woohoo! 😀 I mean the Samsung drive for my Xbox, not the Naruto sleeping cap. :|:( Anyway, I got this and installed it. It took me a lot longer than it should have, but I wanted to make sure I did everything right. 😛 Now my Xbox can read all of my burned CD-R’s! 😀 It also seems to read my Xbox games slightly faster too. 😀 I’ll put up some of the pictures I took when I feel like uploading them. 😛