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July 9, 2010

Finally replaced the now dead WRT55ag which died on me about 3 nights ago. I tried to resurrect it, but it really wont even power on. It can either be the power supply, or the unit - but no point in trying to save a 5 year old wireless device. After all, 5 years is pretty much longer than any other I’ve in a while. What I did was to use a currently unused wireless device, and largest waste of money ever. Its the WRT54g3g-vn wireless mobile broadband router. It takes an EVDo card from Verizon, and uses that as the internet connection. Then you have a proper router/firewall behind it, with a four port switch. Great idea - no doubt. But I thought I saw that my EVDo was a supported card, but as it turns out, its not. And these days, you dont even get the PCMCIA cards anymore. So there’s really no way this thing would ever get used again. So its now serving as an access point. Sure, its overkill, but at least I’m back in business, and will finally get some use out of this thing.