ruskino80
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:26 PM |
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laptop wireless to sort out-part 2
i have just aquired a laptop which is not wireless ready,i have a wireless sky router currently in use (non wirelesly)on my desktop.
what do i need to do/buy to be able to use my laptop wirelsly?
many thanks rich
[Edited on 20/7/09 by ruskino80]
[Edited on 21/7/09 by ruskino80]
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blakep82
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:29 PM |
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some sort of wifi card for the laptop. pcmcia or usb will do it
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mookaloid
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:31 PM |
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Hi Rich,
a usb wireless dongle should do the trick.
like this
Cheers
Mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Gazeddy
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 08:42 PM |
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while usb is available i always find its not wuite upto the networking tasks. pcmcia card can be picked up for a similar price to usb and ive found
they're better. truth be told i have and use a usb dongle but ONLY in emergencys as the dirvers are in windows for it
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ruskino80
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| posted on 19/7/09 at 09:20 PM |
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thanks guys,the usb looks like something i can manage!!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 20/7/09 at 08:05 AM |
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What ever you don't get a PCMICA card --- go USB but use one on the end of an extension or better still one that has an external areial.
Ebuyer do some very cheap USB dongles that work better than the big brand ones.
Also don't install the software for the card, let windows pick up the driver from the install CD then let windows xp/vista built in software
handle the wifi networking.
[Edited on 20/7/09 by britishtrident]
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ruskino80
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| posted on 20/7/09 at 06:47 PM |
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ok so i got a usb thing-its all loaded and plugged in .my strength of signal is 96%
and link is 100%
my little network connections icon on lower right of screen is very busy trying to aquire network address,
this seems to be my problem as the connection is on and off constantly-as yet not managed to be on the net.
any ideas?
this is all loaded from the supplied disc as windows could not do it?
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ruskino80
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| posted on 21/7/09 at 05:50 PM |
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i now appear to have a connection all is good and green 150.0mbps
so why can i not get on the net?
launching ie but just get the old page cannot be displayed
[Edited on 21/7/09 by ruskino80]
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