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I think it might be time to get a new router.

So I've been using this thing for really long time. And by thing I mean router. And by really long time I mean the last hour or so. Basically for some reason it seems to think that I do not need to have a default gateway in order to access the Internet. Or at least that's the way Windows 7 seems to take it. The Vista computer seems to just get all confused and throws up some weird errors about timeouts and then the networking thing crashes.

Routers and networks and everything related are a pain. Routers are the only thing in the entire world that I've seen that have a one year lifespan. Maybe I just treat my routers really bad, but every router that I've owned has died within two years. I had this horrible Netgear thing for the longest time. I can't remember what it did before it stopped working. Something about randomly redirecting ports… Whatever it was it was a pain in the ass. And now this usually stable and reliable Buffalo router seems to be on its last leg.

Oh well… Nothing lasts forever I suppose.

Oh I suppose the rest of you should take this is some sort of important or meaningful allegory.

my netgear one never did that except for the last time I upgraded the firmware which raped everything horribly.