Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

I’m currently in Hong Kong staying with my cousin. When she visited the United States earlier this year, she mentioned that although she had broadband in her flat in Hong Kong, she hadn’t set up wireless yet. So one of the things I did in the first 24 hours of arriving in Hong Kong was head to the Mongkok Computer Centre (8 Nelson St., Kowloon, Hong Kong), the computer shop mecca, looking for a wireless router.

I whipped out my Cantonese for some price shopping with the seemingly endless shops spanning three floors. A good number of the shops didn’t carry Netgear, but most carried Linksys and my least favorite D-Link as well as some apparently local brands. I ended up with a Netgear Wireless Router (WGR614) from Jumbo Computer paying 3% more with my credit card because it wasn’t worth the $1 USD for the extra trip to the ATM for more Hong Kong Dollars. It was 258 HKD (about $33 USD), surprisingly still cheaper than Amazon.com which hasn’t been true based on my price shopping of Micro SD cards and DSLR camera lenses.

Although I have been able to troubleshoot computers in foreign languages (namely Windows) based on familiarity with the English versions, I was relieved to see that the box was in English (error messages and technical terms seem to translate differently). This was consistent with the usage of English in the easy setup process which was simple thanks to the setup wizard.

That was a few days ago.

As I sat down to get some work done tonight, I had a hunch that there would be a issue, but headed over to pandora.com anyway for some background music. I was greeted with this apologetic message:

At least I can get Alice @ 97.3 via iTunes Radio. I’m surprised no one who cares knows about that yet.

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