So I will fiddling around with settings on my computer, and managed to find away to push extra power into the wireless adapter (I hope it’s ok…) to increase the range a tiny tiny bit. And… it seems to have worked! A tiny phantom of a signal that I was receiving in my room before is now viable — although just barely — and I’m not able to leach the internet connection that on-and-off appears in my hallway! I’ve been catching up on emails all night as well as testing the connection. At my desk, it’s not so great… I can listen to low-bandwidth internet radio and do light instant messaging, but web browsing is slow, and if I open Skype the connection dies. Likewise if I try to download something larger than a few k, the connection chokes and dies. My plan is to load up a big download like a torrent and walk around my house until I find the best location for my little net cloud, and plan my tablet there.

This is the only time I think I could ever wish that I had an external instead of internal wireless adapter — I’d be so willing to rig up a cantenna at this point, but I’m not going to crack open my tablet’s casing.

That’s it for now, I just wanted to rejoice a bit. Now I’m going to go web hunting.