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My router broke sometime between 3am and 11am (when I was asleep) this morning. I thought it might have been the plug so I went into Maplin to see fi I could get a new one. It turned out the one the guy reccommended was the same as the one I’d bought in there a week earlier to power my GP2X. So I went home and swapped the broken power supply for the Maplin one and all was well…

…until a few hours later when I found that the replacement power supply had also broken. There may be a short in the router somewhere. I had been meaning to get a new one anyway because that one had one of the ethernet ports broken.

I went out to PC World to get a new router. Strangely though the one which included a USB Wireless dongle cost £5 less than the one which didn’t by this I can only guess that the USB Wireless dongle has negative worth, I asked the guy at PC World if he’d pay me to take some home with me but he said the USB dongles on their own were £30.

UPDATE: The USB dongle that I acquired seems to be working on my laptop

UPDATE 2: It’s working with encryption, even after a reboot!

I also persuaded my Mum to get me a Digital Terrestrial TV Tuner card as a Christmas present because I’m the only one in the house not to have a digibox.