January 17, 2004
Brigitte has died
Brigitte has been my faithful USR 8000 BroadBand router who has been providing our home with shared internet access for 2 years. Gathering dust in a corner, she was pumping packets across her innards, carefully forwarding them to the correct destination. Since a week however, and only after I already had made my mind up that she was due for a replacement, she started dropping packets, as if she felt her retirement was approaching. Yesterday, she stopped forwarding packets at all, keeping traffic inside the walls of this house - I'm sure she finally figured out the Internet was a big passing fad. She has been replaced with Jay, a Cisco/LinkSys WRT54G. Jay does broadband routing and wireless access, while Brigitte had an Orinoco companion for the latter. Jay comes in a poisonous blue and has two antennas proudly sticking up, while as Brigitte was a discrete black box. So far, Jay has been servicing me well. It will take still some time however until we bond like true men. Bye, Brigitte - and thanks for all the packets. Jay, Will Smith is to blame for your cheesy name - the movie we saw last night. Welcome anyhow!
Comments
This post is both disturbing and good for a laugh. Thanks. I think.
Posted by: Bo at January 17, 2004 10:31 AM
My sincerest condolences to you and yours at this time of loss
Posted by: petern at January 18, 2004 11:40 AM
I'm used to giving my pcs names, but my routers... That would require me to name my mobile phone too.
My "Jay" is 2 years old now (well, it's a Linksys wireless gateway, I'm not entirely sure that it matches yours wholly), and he's still doing fine.
Wouldn't "Orion" have been a better choice?
Posted by: Tom Klaasen at January 18, 2004 09:23 PM