I mentioned that I recently bought a Nintendo DS. At around the same time, I ordered a wireless access point from Ebuyer so I could play Mario Kart DS over the Interweb.
It didn’t need to be anything special. The DS only supports the older WEP encryption standard, and - being a paranoid bastard who thinks the TV is watching me - I wouldn’t use wireless networking for anything important no matter how secure it was supposed to be. So all things considered, this heap should have suited my needs perfectly, allowing me to connect my DS while blocking everything else out.
Ebuyer sent me a DVD writer instead. Bad start to my quest, wasn’t it? I sent it back to Ebuyer, who promptly told me that they don’t actually sell what I’d ordered, refunded only part of what I’d paid, and stopped talking.
So now I’m up to ordering this thing from Novatech’s special “so cheap it must be a mistake” range. We’ll see what I get this time. I am expecting a purple elephant.
