Almost there . . . Wi-Fi and the Writer
Almost there–this post takes its title from Star Wars: A New Hope (aka Episode IV) during the “trench run” sequence. I think that I finally figured out the problem with my wifi (crossing fingers, knocking on wood, throwing salt over my shoulder, and any other good luck myths that I can use).
If so, that will solve a HUGE issue for my for my writing and should make me more productive and regular in terms of fiction and this blog. I’m on summer break and I should be using this blog to explore ideas for writing for the upcoming writing year. I’ve decided that, hey, I’m a teacher, so my writing year should start and continue all throughout the school year. Kinda’ sorta’ like what companies do with their fiscal year. Summertime should be a time to let projects lie fallow (for editing), trying to come up with rough drafts (for things to turn into stories later), and finally new ideas for new projects (that can turn into rough drafts later).
But, with no wifi, I’m chained to the one area in the house that my ethernet cable will reach and its really affected the way I write. I finally think I tracked down the issue: long story made short, it appears to be an issue with the mac and the airport utility (firmware) used to communicate between the router and mac.
So here’s what I *think* happened: (new) airport basestation –> downloaded (new) firmware when I plugged it in and connected it. (new) firmware and (new) airport basestation ≠ (old) 2008 macbook pro and (new) OS X (Mavericks/Yosemite). plugged in old base station. (old) base station + (new) firmware did not get along, resulting in an unstable wifi connection (up and down constantly with new and old basestations). finally reverted back to (old) basestation with (old) firmware with (old) 2008 macbook pro with (new) OS X (Yosemite). Did you follow all that? That’s 6 months of reading forum posts, trying different OS X solutions, YouTube vids, and waiting to see if new updates of IOS/OS X would fix the problem (hint: it didn’t).
Fingers very crossed that going backwards on everything but the OS results in a stable wifi connection again. The computer is long in the tooth, I know, but it still has life in it and does everything I need it to do. It runs all my software (except the games on Steam, but that’s what I have my PS4 for anyway
