frustration - again!

[vulgarweed]

And, once again, the wireless internet is causing me trouble in my apartment.

Honestly, a big part of it is that I know my computer is very old and out of date. It's a mac G3, 900 MHz Power PC.

It was several years old when I bought it 2nd hand in '07 for roughly $350 -- which was a huge amount of money to me at the time, and is still huge to me now.

It's the best I can do! I can't throw my computer out; it still works. I don't have a spare amount of hundreds of dollars to buy the next-used model. There is NOTHING wrong with my laptop--except that it won't accept the latest updates for the wireless network that all my roommates take for granted.

I'll be honest - I'm crying right now. I just feel so humiliated. I am not "poor" in the sense of chronic food insecurity (yet), but I am definitely feeling "poor" in a sense that I feel judged for being unable to afford a computer that's up to The Latest Network Standards, so I always often wind up where I am right now, with an ethernet cord plugged into the router downstairs. I can't have Internet in my 3rd floor room, obviously. :(

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* I know that feeling. Poverty is absolutely relative, and only because you have enough to eat doesn't mean it's not painful.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

*hugs*

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

I've been there and it's so frustrating. But please don't feel humiliated. You do more wonderful things with your $350 computer than most people do with fancy ones.


(Also, did you mean to make this a public post?)

[ellimayhem.livejournal.com]

If it's the version of your wireless card, you can get a new wireless adaptor that will look like a flash drive and plug right into your USB port for something in the $25 range. Upgrade the wireless, this isn't a reason to ditch the whole computer.

My 6 year old macbook pro did finally have to be replaced after turning into the worlds most expensive paperweight. But you should be able to use the new USB adaptors on your wireless.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

but I am definitely feeling "poor" in a sense that I feel judged for being unable to afford a computer that's up to The Latest Network Standards...

What you should be feeling is smug for not using resources and generating landfill unnecessarily.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest - I'm crying right now. I just feel so humiliated

Oh, I am definitely with you on that feeling -- see my "technowhinging" tag for my frequent, frequent meditations on the subject of relative Have/Have-Not ism... {sigh}

[clodia-metelli.livejournal.com]

That's a pain, I'm sorry. :( Keeping your computer going so long is amazing, though, given that they pretty much have a hamster's lifespan. I'm always really impressed by that.