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at&t gets more bonus points in my book…
May 19th, 2008
saving myself over $40
May 4th, 2008
i’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while.. but alas, life has taken up all my blogging time.
when i moved into my new house… i already decided that the second bedroom would be my office
. the only thing is that there was no phone jack in that room. so i had two choices for my internet options: 1) drill holes in walls and run a cat5 cable to my computer in my office or 2) buy a wireless card for my desktop computer.
after some research, and determining that option #2 would be around $50 and a whole lot less time/effort, it made my decision easy.
fast forward to after the airport extreme card is delivered. i open up my g5… install the card.. and have no issues whatsoever…. well.. until it comes to the point of connecting to the airport extreme router that is just down the hall.
turns out that i need to have an external antenna piece… that came with the computer
.
so i call the apple store. “no we don’t sell those. you’ll have to go to macsales.com or something like that” don’t you have them in the genius area or anything “no. i don’t think so. sorry”
i look online. the site that the apple store employee told me to go to did not have any such thing. i do a search online. $35 for a cheap piece of plastic… and NINE DOLLARS FOR SHIPPING?! oh come on. you’ve got to be kidding me. this thing probably costs less than a buck to make.
fast forward over my griping and complaining. i look in my “bucket of wires/connectors/adapters” and find an antenna wire for my old stereo that stopped working. it’s just a simple piece of wire… and thats really all an antenna is… right? well.. lets try sticking it in the back of the g5 and see what happens.
*poof* full strength wi-fi signal.
dear apple. you should really stop telling people they have to pay over $40 for something that can be fixed for around $0.50.