Setting Up a Computer Office

Since it’s vacation time I’ll be doing a little less posting about school and a little more posting about personal stuff. It so happens that I just moved house and thus have plenty of excisting things to talk about such as the adventure that is setting up my computer office.

The painting is done (by someone else, might I add…) and I got around to putting some stuff in place today. This post, in fact, is the first one in about three weeks which is written on my very own computer. Not some school piece of crap, not some tiny laptop, but my very own powerhorse of a computer that weighs in with at least 15 kilo’s (you should have seen the look on the mover’s faces. They thought it would be ‘just another computer’).

After most of the hardware was in place I wanted to start pulling internet wires through pipes in the walls meant for such occasions. My modem is in the electrics closet (I have NO idea what that’s called in English, so electrics closet will have to do, and it’s got a nice ring to it) and following logic I decided to put my router there as well and use as little wired connections as possible. I did, afterall, buy a new fancy router especially for it’s awsome wireless capabilities (and it works very much as expected, D-Link Xtreme Gaming Router, recommended by yours truly). Anyway, since wireless connections do eat some of your download limit I prefer to have my Mainframe computer (yes, it’s actually called Mainframe) wired to the router.

Everything seemed so easy when I started. This modern house actualy has pipes running from the electrics box to pretty much every room in the house so you can pull your own wires through as you see fit. So I had this awsome idea to just pull the internet cable through the wall, to my office and connect my computer there. However things did not work out so well between me and the wirepuller thing. It either got stuck midpipe, broke, twisted or whatever and after 4 hours of torment I still don’t have my internet coming from the wall!

How does he have internet to post this you ask?

I ran the wire underneath the door, down the stairs and straight into the electrics closet into the router. It looks like shit but tommorow I shall try once again.

Wish me luck!

Robin