woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Some good fortune... I don't have a smartphone and no computer connection at my shop, but with English Language broadcasting and good programing barely available, I was thinking that having internet radio would be cool there. Work isn't happening, so I don't want to take on any more bills. A friend checked for what wifi is around and there is one closed signal, I thought maybe emanating from the hot spring hotel down the lane.
A guy lives close by and I know he has some electronics background, don't really know him he keeps to himself, but he once stopped in for a piece of wood for some audio thing that he was working on. I knocked on his door to see if he could offer some advice, and when I walked in invited for a cup of coffee, I discovered an elaborate electronics laboratory, apparently he works on sophisticated stuff, including computers. He told me the wifi signal was his and he keeps it running all the time, and that he'd give me the password, which he did. When I said I would be getting an internet radio, he said that instead he'd fix me up with a compact computer to connect, and an external speaker for improved sound. A little sketchy on the distance, wifi is a weak signal, so if the reception is poor, he said he's put up an antennae at his end, and if it was still weak, one at my place too, said that would easily do it. He said that all I need to pay him was thirty bucks for the wifi connector or whatever it is to catch the signal. Hell of a nice guy and good neighbor to have!
A guy lives close by and I know he has some electronics background, don't really know him he keeps to himself, but he once stopped in for a piece of wood for some audio thing that he was working on. I knocked on his door to see if he could offer some advice, and when I walked in invited for a cup of coffee, I discovered an elaborate electronics laboratory, apparently he works on sophisticated stuff, including computers. He told me the wifi signal was his and he keeps it running all the time, and that he'd give me the password, which he did. When I said I would be getting an internet radio, he said that instead he'd fix me up with a compact computer to connect, and an external speaker for improved sound. A little sketchy on the distance, wifi is a weak signal, so if the reception is poor, he said he's put up an antennae at his end, and if it was still weak, one at my place too, said that would easily do it. He said that all I need to pay him was thirty bucks for the wifi connector or whatever it is to catch the signal. Hell of a nice guy and good neighbor to have!
