Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Where's the WiFi?


The other day I was walking around trying to find a good place to do my homework. I sat down outside so I could use WiFi to get on the Internet. I turned on my computer and started searching for my good friend, PAL2.0. After a few minutes of the computer not being able to find anything I packed up and walked a hundred feet to a nearby bench. I turned my computer on again and was still unable to receive a WiFi connection. At his point I was starting to get annoyed because caring around a 17” laptop is a bit of a hassle. I am pretty sure Purdue has WiFi throughout campus but why is it whenever I try to connect it never can.

Last night I discovered the perfect item to help me with finding WiFi when I need it. It actually attaches to your wrist and you can use it to keep time. Yes, it is a watch. A watch that tells you time and if there is a WiFi connection available. The watch has a button on it that when activated turns on a mini receiver that checks for WiFi connections. The only down side of the watch is that it cannot determine if the connection is secured or not. So the watch may find a working WiFi but when you try to connect you are denied because you are trying to access a network that does not want you. The watch is also water resistant up to 100 meters so if you ever need to find WiFi underwater you can.

The WiFi watch would be a great help to me and I believe it would also be a great help to all of you too. So now if you have to get some homework done and you do not want to work with your annoying roommate around, go outside and use WiFi.

1 comment:

supervanman64 said...

Yeah, I've had those moments where I'm like, "Where's PAL2.0?!" Most of those moments are in the Lawson building where it tells you that you have a connection, but it say "Internet Explorer is encountering problems..." And I'm like "What the Crap?!" Sometimes the reason it won't connetct is that the wireless connection button got hit and turned off. Then I get embarrassed, look around, and make sure nobody saw that. Anyway, good job with the post, keep up the good work!