Mystery solved

So for those of you waiting on the edge of your seat for the answer to last week’s, What is it???, the answer is here. It is a Netgear Nighthawk Smart Wi-Fi Router. What?? In English terms, it’s a machine that allows your computer, smartphone, tablet or any other device to connect to the Internet wirelessly. I was very lucky to get this nifty thing from the Amazon Vine program. I must confess I didn’t realize how neat it was until I asked Mr. Ken, my local geek, about it. He almost fell off his chair he was so excited.

Me: “Ken, can you come in here and look at this thing I’m being offered by Amazon? I think it’s pretty cool, but I don’t know.”

Mr. Ken: “Oh my gosh, this is awesome, it has a dual core processor and a dynamic QoS, you should definitely request this.”

What’s a QoS? Sounds like a quota or a quorum, doesn’t it? It means “quality of service” and that means that some Internet traffic is prioritized. Still confused, well so am I. . .

So it arrived and Mr. Ken absconded with it up into his office. I didn’t hear a peep from him for several hours. When he finally emerged, he was smiling and said I have checked all of the Internet connections and we are running 5 times faster.

I’m thinking to myself, “I thought we already had a very fast connection, but I guess for geeks, there is no such thing as too fast.”

I know better than to ask him how he measured the Internet connection.

I really wanted to capture this device in it’s full glory. At night, it has about 5 blinking lights on it, so it lights up the room. A picture can’t do it justice. But here I sit, with a super fast Internet connection, feeling like I am on a space ship.

Next week I will get back to reporting on my conferences. I got tied up this week with signing up for a month of unlimited barre classes, which takes priority over everything else. I already warned Mr. Ken, my Mom and my friends that I will be hard to reach since I will be practically living at the barre studio.   You can tell where my priorities lie. 🙂

Blinking lights photo is courtesy of Scott Robinson’s Flickr Photostream, under Creative Commons Licensing.