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I was having trouble with my old wireless router. I’ve had it about 2 years and it was dropping my internet connection, even from the PC that was actually plugged into it.
\nFor only about $35 I got a new Dlink router<\/a> running 802.11g instead of the old Netgear running 802.11b. (My laptop’s internal wireless card is 802.11g)
\nWow, pages load fast now. b to g. I really didn’t think I’d notice the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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