I never pass up the chance to spice up the blog with some techie sounding jargon. So I couldn’t resist using CES instead of Consumer Electronics Show — the annual gadget’s galore presentation that just wrapped up its 2009 installment today in Las Vegas.
I’m not much of a gadget guy. However, I did battle earlier this year searching for a good quality wireless router for our little 3-computer home network. It turned into a battle because we couldn’t find a combination DSL modem/wireless router to replace the one we got originally from our DSL provider about five years ago. We were having disconnect/slow speed problems and finally concluded we needed a new
router. After several days of Googling and searching local big-box electronics stores, we settled on a newer version of the same modem/router combo we originally got with out DSL package.
Looking around the Internet today I came across a review for a new modem/router that debuted at this year’s CES. It sounds like a much better deal than the one we settled for last spring. But, of course, it probably cost twice as much, and it wasn’t available last spring.
Seems there’s no getting around it — no matter the high-tech gadget, there’s always a newer, smaller, faster, better one coming up just a few weeks or few months down the road. Makes it hard to run an operation on a shoestring budget, doesn’t it?
Now if we can just keep our old, simple minded cell phone running a few more months …