Today I finally tackled a problem I’ve been having with my internet connection. I already had it in the old apartment but because I’m a lazy fucker, I never did anything to it. I’ve had good sleep, I was up early and I’m fuelled with a huge cup of dark roast coffee, so I finally started to look up what is wrong.

Now I have a different internet service provider than on the previous apartmet, but same stuff, 10mbps is included in the apartment for free, but I pay a whopping 9.90€/month for 100mbps connection, I know, so expensive, such cost. I’m sorry for all the people on the other side of the pond that have to pay insane amounts of money for internet connection. Finland is a first world country like no other, at least in this instance!

Anyways, I always use the wireless connection, because doh, a MacBook doesn’t have a place for ethernet cable, unless you plug a converter thingy in between, and wires are so limiting. Once every blue moon, I get a max download speed of 55mbps, but I think it usually hovers somewhere around 30. Not good enough! The ping time is somewhere between 6 and 10, so that is pretty alright. The apartment is not that big, and the connection doesn’t change much depending on where I am, so the walls are not the problem.

The millennial me, who works and plays (not like game games, but you know) on a computer all day every day, I need/want a great connection.

With the help of @cornerstone, my go to person for technology problems, I started to narrow down where the fault lies. Checking the specs on my MacBook Pro, which has the best hardware money can buy for that specific Mac, all good there. Testing speed with both wired and wireless connection, straight from the wall and though the router box. The router itself should be okay, it should be able to send out at least the 100mbps I’m paying for, but apparently there is a problem with the antenna or something. The wired connection gives out a good 94mbps speed, so the problem has to be the wireless connection.

Now I need to shop for a new router, more research it is then… Jesus those things are expensive, says the girl who can pay double that for shoes without thinking twice. Priorities….

Now I’m all wired up, _{see what I did there} on coffee and don’t know that to do with all this hyper energy so I’m just writing like a maniac. I’m so grateful for automatic spell check that corrects the mistakes my phalanges make at this speed. Okay, I need to head out before I crash from the caffeine high and start napping!

Thank you @cornerstone for your guidance, help and patience!

So what have you been up to on this fine morning?