My new modem router thingy has arrived.

I'm using it for the first time.

It does 300 MBpS.

My old one only did 24 MBpS.

Now I can post 12.5 times faster than I used to be able to.

I'm about to try and connect my phone up to my modem router thingy.

I haz managed it at the first attempt.

What make of router did you buy, Wendi?

I'm changing my package to unlimited broadband and I want to buy a modern router to go with it.

I got a TP-LINK N300 VDSL/ADSL Modem Router. I don't know if it's any good or not but it was the cheapest that Argos had that also had a high customer rating.

Yes, I was thinking of getting that one on the same criteria.

In the old days my rule was to buy the second cheapest thing on the page in the Argos catalogue.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

I got a TP-LINK N300 VDSL/ADSL Modem Router. I don't know if it's any good or not but it was the cheapest that Argos had that also had a high customer rating.

I now haz a TP_LINK TD-W9970 router.

It's working so far.

It did confuse me, when I was buying it , why the router seems to have two different names.

I still don't know what its USB port's for.

I refuse to have the prongs vertical, in case I trip and poke my eye out on one of them.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

I refuse to have the prongs vertical, in case I trip and poke my eye out on one of them.

I've got mine arranged like little space invader ears.

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I still don't know what its USB port's for.

Back in the day those were for the network connection to your computer, if you were too poor to afford network cables.

Nowadays they're for attaching a USB drive with loads of files on, for all the computers in your household to share nicely via the router.

I didn't get mine in Argos btw. I got it from Tescos this morning along with my shopping. I bought two avocados, the FT, a lettuce, two packs of radishes, a cucumber, a bottle of Viña Sol, a Finest couscous, and a router.

Rubber crocodile is the official smell of the New Hall of the Wendigo.

Quite often recently I've been up late posting stuff on the NHOTW, and yet when I get up in the morning, no-one has posted any more posts for me to read

I've got nothing interesting exciting or insightful to say when I'm a kip.

Happy New Year to you all anyway. Let's keep it 'NHOTW' in 2019!