My roommates laughed at me when I wanted to browse the web down in the basement! “You fool,” they scoffed! “The router’s in the study! You’ll get no signal down there!” Clearly, they underestimated my cunning, my genius for improvisation and my budget for 85-mbps wall-plugged ethernet switches!

With the help of these inventive devices, I can create a four-port home network connection anywhere I find an electrical outlet! And find them I have, in almost every room, even if it kind of looks like there isn’t one at first! I simply have to move a couch, or look behind the drapes or something—there’s one!

How I pity the short-sighted cable guy who installed our router in the first place! His feeble imagination constrained by an outmoded paradigm, he conceived only of using the Internet on our ground level! How far have I advanced beyond that modest vision! Now the Internet courses through our home’s very walls like Zzzax the Living Dynamo! And my roommates—are they laughing anymore? Well, yes! But only because hilarious YouTube videos are streaming into every room of the house!

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