Acer Aspire 4715z Touchpad Repair

Here's another quick video on a repair job on my Acer Aspire 4715z. This time, it's a replacement for the tactile switches on the touchpad (they died during the popularity of Plants vs. Zombies :D).

Acer Aspire 4715z Keyboard Replacement

My Acer Aspire 4715z has served me for 3 years now. Unfortunately, its keyboard is already missing a lot of keys (picked by my daughter Anika when she was one). Typical laptop repair costs around PhP 2000 but I found a replacement keyboard on eBay, and, it only costs approximately PhP 650 (including shipping).

Building my pfSense Machine - Reviving my Old Desktop

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to have a second internet connection. We’ve been served by PLDT DSL for 7 years now and I can say that the connection is quite reliable, though, it also has down times. I’ve wanted to have a continuous internet connection even when one connection is down, a failover. I also wanted to distribute the load between two connections, to minimize slowdown when somebody is downloading a large file or watching some video in YouTube.

Just a week ago, we registered for that second internet connection, wi-tribe’s WiMAX network. We opted to try wi-tribe, as their nearest base station to our home is just a block away, or, roughly, just 30 meters away. I cannot yet say whether the connection will be reliable for the days to come, but so far, it’s providing a continuous connection at consistent speeds of 0.7Mbps to 1Mbps.