wes'log

Today, our pet turtle has moved on to its next life. RIP Sheldon 2004 – 2017.

For secret santa, Harry Cheng had me and he got me a pair of G By Guess jeans and an Express t-shirt.

My dad’s Christmas gift to me was a gray M151 blazer and dress pants from Macy’s!

I didn’t like the Belkin routers that I got on November 24th, so I ordered 2 Asus RT-N12 routers from Newegg.com and got them on December 6th.

I paid $64.48, but I will be getting a $40 rebate.

Monday, November 25th – Arrived in the office and found a package on my desk. Opened it up, and it was the pair of custom hand painted shoes that I’ve won in a raffle contest for referring people (my dad’s friend) to Dolby! These shoes will be displayed in my cubicle for everyone to see. 🙂

 

Thursday, November 28th – My 2nd hoodie from AliExpress.com arrived today. This one took 26 days to arrive. Paid $12.99 for it, and I love it! It’s much better than the one that arrived on November 22nd.

  

Friday, November 29th – Got my Google Wallet card!

Saturday, November 30th – I wanted to play around with the newest Google phone, the Nexus 5, so I ordered a Mint condition one on swappa.com for $415. The package arrived today, which contained: a black 16GB Nexus 5, Spigen Slim Armor, Spigen Crystal Screen Protector, and a LG WCP-300 Wireless Qi Charger! It was such a good deal that I couldn’t pass up on it.

Also, I had to order a nano sim card adapter from Amazon for $1.63 so that I could use my iPhone 5’s sim card in the Nexus 5’s micro sim card slot. Surprisingly, this package also arrived today; the expected delivery date was Tuesday, December 3rd.

I ordered two Belkin Share Max N300 Wireless N+ MiMo Routers, with gigabit ethernet and 2 USB ports from Amazon for $25 each, but I had a $10 gift card which made the total only $40.

My routers in the house was a Netgear WNDR3400 and an old Linksys WRT54G. Since I am replacing the Linksys with this new router, I thought it would be nice to replace the Netgear one too, to have matching routers. However, the wifi range of this new one isn’t as good for the tenants in the basement, so I will keep the Netgear router and only replace the Linksys.

I installed the Tomato USB firmware but after hours of playing around with the configuration, I could not get internet speeds faster than 20Mbps. So I decided to try the dd-wrt firmware, lo and behold, I got my maximum internet speed of 50Mbps. I will keep the dd-wrt firmware even though it does not have support of the USB ports on the router.