Best Buy: New router and setting the home page to my.aol.com

After two Netgear wireless routers stopped working (within 6 months of each other, they just stopped - no signal, no response), I finally gave up and got a new one. I am not sure why the Netgear router just stops working, but when it happens twice I figure something is wrong with the devices. Netgear support is OK, and they had sent me a second router 6 months back, but that finally conked out. Maybe too much cat hair in it, or something. I put it down to a defect in this particular model.

I went to Best Buy at Santana Row and came out with a new router, this one from Belkin. It seems to be working great (so far), but check back in 6 months.

While I was in Best Buy, I went on a bunch of machines. Some really nice looking laptops from HP and Sony, and some really really nice screens. I also tried myAOL and Magnet on most of the displays, to see what they would look like. And finally, I set the home page from MSN to myAOL. I am not sure why the homepage is MSN. But myAOL sure looks better.

So if you happened to go to that Best Buy after me, you may have seen myAOL popping up.

Tags: netgear, routers, best buy, homepage, willspeaking

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