Learning from others' experiences..ya know, and stuff.

After looking around me and realizing that the perpetual mess that is the first floor of our house wasn't going to clean itself, I decided I wasn't going to clean it either. I'm sure that sentence didn't leap off of the page and grab you, did it? Well, moving on, I have had some internet connectivity issues this week. Pages take eons to load and then all of a sudden, a lightening fast connection. Back and forth. Forever. Ahem, anyway, I've been trying to research what the problem could be. Comcast will be of absolutely no help to me. I didn't even bother. I did the usual, unplug the router, wait 10 seconds, restart your computer, stand on one foot while tugging on your left ear, etc. None of it has worked so far so I did some research into the drivers for my modem and the possibility that they needed to be updated. After some irritating dead-ends I came across a website where you can download something called "Driver Detective." After the initial run of the thing, I was quite intrigued, it showed me the drivers for all of the devices on my computer and broke them down into the ones that needed updates and the ones that didn't. I was stoked, the modem's driver did show that it needed an update. The Driver Detective also has all of the drivers you need to download, and goes through the process of helping you install them. Sounds outstanding, right? Well, it'll cost you - $39.95 to be exact. And I did it. I was desparate, if there is anything that drives me nuts it is a slow connection speed/internet issues. It is my only connection with The Others, you know, all of those people who are not me & Daughter. My ability to (and let's face it, dependency on) access to such technology is vital to my survival. So anyway, after hours, and hours of trying to update all of this miscellaneous drivers, I've run into a problem. The ones that I really want, the ones directly related to my getting a more reliable internet connection, are all in zip files. Now, this wouldn't be a problem, but for some odd reason, my computer was routing all zip files to Picasa PhotoViewer. So, got that little issue under control and I've managed to get the files unzipped. And now, now I'm stuck. I can't figure out how to get these files installed onto my computer thereby updating the drivers that I purchased this forsaken program for. Anyway, in the mean time, I'll keep trying & cursing the cyberspace gods all the way.