Are you using a laptop or a desktop?

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by BigBo

I'm running wireless on three 'puters. One is my daughters' in the house next door off of my router. No probs.

Whats the distance from the houses, and have you tried to go farther?

[JohnR]

Ronnie - talk to me before getting the laptop. I'll steer you in the right direction for a new one...

Wireless routers are great but they MUST be setup securely. I had been fighting with my ISP that my lines sucked and they said they were fine, well on the slightly more than rare occassion when it went down, I'd "borrow" my neighbors wireless . I can see 4-5 wireless networks from my house and get on to 2-3 of them because the people do not secure them.


Typical wireless B/G range is 100-150 feet indoors. The amount and type of objects in the wat between one point and the other will determine signal quality and speed. The further you go and more obstructions you have, the lower your line speed will be.

Outside, with a decent system you can probably push out to 4000 feet with little tweaking.

For the speakers, if it is a surround system, you'll need to see if the laptop supports all of the features. Semi-common in desktops but not as much in laptops. What kind of jacks do the speakers have?

The laptop should be anel to support all of the equipment that the desktop did assuming it has all of the right interfaces, for example, not many new laptops still have a paralell port...

I'm going to move this to computers but leave a redirect in the main forum...

[BigBo]

Her connection to my router is roughly 150 ft.

[BrianS]

3 PC's
3 Laptops

My fave is my iBook...

[Vectorfisher]

Ronnie I have the Linksys wireless G with speedbooster 2 1 brand new and the other used, cards and the disc with instructions when you are ready, CHEAP!! I think it costs me $ 70.00 All you will need is the Linksys router. My son F'ed with my laptop and damaged it so that I cannot use the ports so I am Cat5 to the router and stuck to a desk and refuse to spend any money to fix the problem

[Squid kids Dad]

We just bought the Linkeys router from best but..It was 39.95...Wireless is the way to go

[Newf]

If your sticking with Dell, look into a docking station for all of the cable connections to the laptop. You can make all the connections to the dock and when you need to go just remove the laptop, no messing with cables everytime you need to disconnect/reconnect. You can hook up a full size keyboard so when you're home you can type a little easier on the bigger keyboard. On the link below just check out the docking brochure. Oh yeah, I am not a spammer.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=22&l=en&s=dfh