Hub-you-like

Have spent most of my day off trying to crack my BT hub. The cheeky buggers at British Telecom send you a free wireless hub when you sign up for their ridiculously high priced BT Broadband package. So when the good people from TalkTalk came calling, I jumped at the chance of almost halving my bills. Actually that's not totally correct- on a day off about a month ago they knocked on the door, and i am that gullible that i was signing contracts and grinning an inane grin in no time. Think the salesman's ploy was to bring an attractive female 'trainee' with him. Clever bastards.

Anyway, the BT hub in question doesn't work with any provider except for BT, but because it was serving me well for the few months I had it, and the fact I'm a cheap bugger and so don't want to splash out on a new wireless router, I have been online looking for ways in which to bend this moulded white plastic technology brick to my ways. And it was all going very smoothly, I had downloaded flash programmes to change the settings, backed up all the ISP's, checked out possible different DHCP's, and spent the first few hours reading what all those bloody letters and computer-wordies stood for. Didn't have a clue.
But had myself a step-by-step list of how to go about it. And go about it I did. Until I hit that inescapable 'error' message that always stands in my way.

So the plan now?
Buy myself a wireless router and admit defeat.

Not all bad though, I have been inside most of the day listening to the new CD I purchased. Had been eyeing it up for a while now and decided to spend the £12 asking price- could I have got it cheaper anywhere else? Definitely. But this was an 'impulse buy' and our national economy would be in a worse of state without that. So I was helping the economy. So it's all good.
The CD in question? The Essential Eagles Collection. And it's bloody marvelous so there.