Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Breakfast at home: I prepared for myself one egg and cheddar on english muffin. Began cleaning the tops of the Tunhem cabinets when we received notice that our internet service hardware had been delivered. I walked to the nearby UPS Store to pick up our modem/router, then returned home and began installing it. It was troublesome to work with the very old network panel. There were about 10 coax cables coming into the panel, and seven were likely to be the one that I needed. I tried a few that did not work before I figured it out—it was the one feeding the splitter. I changed the login and password then set it in bridged mode and began setting up our mesh network router instead. The wifi signal reached farther than I had expected. I had expected the worst since wifi signals travel poorly in concrete construction. While working in the network panel, a part of our phone entry system broke because some wires fell out of a terminal and I tried for 30 minutes but was unable to repair the failure. Walked and rode Muni to old home to meet our landlord who inspected our old home and found everything in order. We said our thank yous and goodbyes. Patrick and I walked to and bought frozen dumplings from Asian American Food Company. Stopped for churros and hot beverages at Chalos. Rode Muni home. Resolved the phone entry problem by giving it more time and effort. Updates for devices. Continued wifi setup and config. Both printers are now set up, local backups are working again, and we have rudimentary wifi. For some reason, my laptop only gets 15 Mbps down whereas other devices are getting 120 Mbps, and I'm not sure why. Dinner at home with Patrick: steamed dumplings with soy-garlic dipping sauce, hot water. Patrick cleared the table and loaded the dishwasher then went to bed. I stayed up continuing network troubleshooting. Late snack: one banana. I cleared remaining items from the kitchen sink and started the dishwasher. I realize we forgot to watch Everybody's Live, but the TV is not yet set up, and internet wasn't quite working well anyway.