Helluva time

Had internet trouble for the last week or so. My ethernet card pooped out. I tried lots of different things before I figured that out. System Restore was unhelpful (and strange: it resurrected my old dial-up system even though I haven't used that service for about a year.). I uninstalled lots of excess stuff. It sure can't have hurt anything. Somewhere along the way I messed up my Norton anti-virus, so I had to reinstall that and create rescue disks. I don't think I ever managed that before. I tried once, but something went wrong and I gave up.

That card only lasted three months. D-Link is the company, I think. The new one is from Linksys.