Sha Naa Naa

1. Traveling across the country throws your entire time off — but only just enough so that you feel weird, and not enough so that you can legitimately whine about it.
2. When your sense of time is off, you forget to do things — like call your father on his birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad!
3. You also forget to blog.

So what did I do on the 15th? I worked and worked and studied and fixed a router connection. Didn’t go outside at all. :-(

For the knowledge of those on the internet: if you have a broadband connection that doesn’t stay connected all the time, the problem is probably with one of the settings on your router. Check your “MTU” setting. If it is at 1500, change it down to 1400 and restart the router.

In this specific situation, I needed to modify the MTU setting on a Airport Express remotely. To do this:

1. On a Mac, open up the Terminal application. (If you can’t find this, open Finder and use the search box to search for “Terminal”.)
2. In the new Terminal window that popped up, type: sudo ifconfig en1 mtu 1400
3. Enter your password when prompted.
4. That’s it! You’re done! If performance is still bad, repeat the above commands with the number 1300 instead of 1400.