Wireless Frustrations

I’m ready to throw this laptop out the proverbial window. NorthernVoice is providing free wifi on UBC’s network, yet my computer (maybe it’s my wireless card) refuses to acquire an IP address. I’m watching everyone else online, and can’t get there from here. I suppose I could just listen to the sessions, but c’mon already!

[Update] Okay, for no good reason, my computer decided to connect.

[tags] wireless, wifi [/tags]

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4 Responses to “Wireless Frustrations”

  • Ryan Carter Says:
    February 10th, 2006 at

    I feel like saying, “Tina come get the FOOD! FOOD!” Except in this case it would be “Tina, get the IP! IP!” GOSH!

  • Jason Says:
    February 10th, 2006 at

    Hahaha – thanks Ryan, you just made me laugh out loud in a session!

  • Chris Maddocks Says:
    February 11th, 2006 at

    I had the same problem at SFU for months on end. Eventually, I received an email; SFU’s wireless capacity was getting overloaded because they were in the middle of upgrading several the whole system.

    Maybe there were too many bloggers at Northern Voice this year? :)

  • Jason Says:
    February 11th, 2006 at

    Yeah, unfortunately I think that’s exactly what happened. Oh well.