I wrote a little story shortly after getting here, but opted to not post it. I feel that the moral of the story is important, though... so if you leave the US with a laptop with a broken LAN port (ie., so you can't get internet access unless you have an established wireless network, and you cannot set up a new wireless router). No matter how excited you are about checking your email, do NOT plug it directly into the wall unless it can handle 220V-240V. If you do, you'll have wireless internet for ~4 minutes. After that you'll have a fried transformer (black box on the plug), as we found out on Sept 4.
Monday, September 15, 2008
230 V and a 120V wireless router...
I wrote a little story shortly after getting here, but opted to not post it. I feel that the moral of the story is important, though... so if you leave the US with a laptop with a broken LAN port (ie., so you can't get internet access unless you have an established wireless network, and you cannot set up a new wireless router). No matter how excited you are about checking your email, do NOT plug it directly into the wall unless it can handle 220V-240V. If you do, you'll have wireless internet for ~4 minutes. After that you'll have a fried transformer (black box on the plug), as we found out on Sept 4.
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