new years eve

i spent the bulk of my new years eve quite unhappy. i came home for christmas and quickly setup the 2nd router in my house(it was sitting there, unused, and i had to give it a purpose) as a wds node. it was not fun trying to get it working and everytime i unplug the power, it *seems* i have to change one wifi-related setting to get them to connect.
i found out after an hour of tinkering that my brother was downloading several torrents and therefore was a) using all the available bandwidth, and b) consuming all of the router's resources(ram, cpu power, etc). several times during that hour, the two routers successfully initiated a connection, but never got past the initial connection because the main router couldn't do anything beyond the initial connection due to having to manage several hundred(at least) bittorrent peer connections. it royally screwed my enjoyment of the holiday having to troubleshoot a connection that wasn't working when it should have.
i'm kinda pissed off if you haven't noticed, but i did end up getting the connection working at around 1:30am today.
wds is an awesome technology, it even passes my laptop's dhcp requests off to the main router. i've connected my laptop with cat-5 to the seconday router, hence the main router sees it as being on the lan, not wifi, which is pretty cool(once it works).