[Billfred]

I highly recommend not trying to redo the entire network in your house.

Spoiler for Billfred's Home Networking Saga:

Time Warner Cable finally came to our house to fix a cable modem fried in a lightning storm on Tuesday--that's nearly 48 hours with no internet. Of course, we then find out that the router and Mom's onboard ethernet are toast, leading to a Best Buy run and a dust-filled allergyrama to install the card and get it working. I also found out that our cable modem can only assign one IP at a time, something that stalled me for nearly an hour until I took my iBook off the network to get her back on--and the new router configured.

When I had a few days during finals week with no real obligations, I found myself playing an awful lot of online Flash games. I've been a fan of Quadradius, a sort of checkers game on steroids, but other games tend to become favorites if you search around for them. (Some of the younger folks here might know the new hip spot for games--when you no longer have a school district blocking the hip site every other week, you tend to settle down on one.)