I had the video card go bad in my new desktop, so I spent a few minutes rolling back to the old one, only to find networking extremely slow. It took, literally, about 5 minutes to open Google's home page, slowly bringing down data, despite the connection saying it was 100mbps.

I checked Tia's machine, and my laptop, all running wirelessly, and they were fine. Since the wired cable I have runs up and over a door, making a new one isn't a simple project. I could do it, but it wasn't something I wanted to do on a Sunday morning.

So I grabbed a Belkin Wireless-N USB adapter. I'd gotten one for about $40 when Circuit City closed (one of the very few bargains) and it was going to be used in the basement. Instead I dropped it into my new Belkin USB hub (feels like a Belkin ad, huh?) and it connected right away, all 270Mbps of it!

I was glad I had that handy as it saved quite a bit of hassle. Now I need to decide how to handle moving forward with the desktop.