breaking things in my brother's house

yep. we rolled into Durham late last night, and I was so excited to pull out the new Apple Airport Express and show my bro how quickly the fancy wireless network could get flowing. About 2 hours later, sitting on the couch with cat-5 stretched across the living room, still not connected...this is being posted from his desktop.

After everyone went to bed, I figured out at least one of the problems. He was giving me a line from his wireless router, and that seemed to be the sticking point. I pulled the line from the cable modem and got the wireless network up in about 2 minutes.

Today, after he re-connected his wireless router, nothing is working in the wireless realm. He's re-booted, re-connected, released and renewed ip addresses...

Oh well. Maybe we'll scoot off to check out a pawn shop or two. I dig that stuff...