Careful what you wish for...

I didn't really go looking for trouble... not exactly, at least... but now that we're serious about getting all our video over the Internet, we've been acutely aware of buffering problems that typically strike in the early evening. The other night, for example, it took two hours of clock time to (buffer and) watch a 42-minute show. It'd be easy enough to blame our Internet provider, except that the problem does not appear on devices situated closer to the stock 2Wire wireless router provided by AT&T.

So I did a little digging, and it turned out to be pretty simple to connect my old WRT54G wireless router to the AT&T unit, disable wireless on the latter and then just have it pipe everything to the former, which is now situated in a more central location in the house and operates on a channel that is not 6 (the default on many home routers, and there's about a half dozen within hailing distance, according to this Android app I got). Between the distances and the channel crowding, I'm not really surprised performance was so poor.

Eventually, everything settled down, and I addressed the job that should have been done earlier, did some invoicing, and exchanged some emails with some potential new clients, i.e., the usual insanity of being a freelancer.

In other news, I am noticing a huge tendency to procrastinate when thoughts turn to a certain project I have in mind. Part of me is wondering "What chops do I have to write on the subject?" while another is egging me on to Get. On. With. It.

In the interim, however, I need to catch some rack time.