… what the inside of your Netgear router looks like?
I do. Well, I did.
It wasn’t working, so I ripped it open. The wireless was working, but the Ethernet ports were not. I couldn’t figure out the problem, so I got another one. I burn through routers like I burn through mouses and keyboards. I use them all day, 7 days a week.
Inside the router is neat looking. Like a cityscape.
Everything is SO tiny!!! I am at the age now where I have to take off my regular glasses to see anything up close; it was like a micro world in there. Reminded me of that old episode of Mork & Mindy (remember that one?!) where the alien Mork gets a cold, and human friend Mindy gives him medicine for his stuffy nose. But then he reads the label, only to realize that the medicine is an antihistamine. He tells Mindy that his body is all histamine- he is shrinking! He shrinks and shrinks until he is microscopic! The rest of the show is all about his adventures as a microscopic being, finding things in the house that are invisible to the eye. LOL. It is probably the only Mork & Mindy episode that I remember. Anyway, whenever I look at very tiny things, I think of that Mork & Mindy episode, and also that verse in the Letter to the Hebrews (chapter 11): By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
Anyway, my curiosity is sated. I now know what is inside of a router. Gosh, I cannot WAIT until the TV dies!!!!
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September 6, 2010 at 7:17 am
No, this is something I have never wondered about. Don’t even know what a netgear router is!
September 6, 2010 at 9:16 am
Must be the time for routers cuz I had to go buy another for my mother cuz her wireless wasn’t working on it. Only the ethernet ports and of course she was freaking out as usual. Apparently the guy she’s been getting to fix her pcs was out of town so she had to resort to ask me even though she knows I hate fixing her pcs cuz she does the most assinine things to break them and it drives me apesh*t.
September 6, 2010 at 11:29 am
My D-Link router died a couple of weeks ago. I replaced it with a Netgear model. Isn’t it fun to take things apart? I have a collection of odd screws, washers and other [stranger] parts that have come from dismantled electronic gear.