i got my first laptop.

lol...........

you do know how to turn it on right?

 

What kind did you get your self??

 

Somebody went to Wal-Mart.

Westinghouse 14" Laptop Computer & 19" LCD TV System

Good luck with it! I have never had good luck with notebook PCs. And now I don't need one with my 700wx. But I wouldn't mind having one of these! :drool:

 

Now you need to get a wireless router so you can go anywhere in your home.

 

If you get a "Dialup" Gateway, but those have become uncommon and hard to find.

 

Cool. Congratulations on your first laptop walkguru.

I got my first laptop almost 3.5 years ago. I love the portability of it.

Once you get dsl or cable (once it comes out your way), you can set up a wireless network.

I have four devices that use a wifi signal. The devices are as follows:

• My laptop that uses wireless
• My old laptop (that still works pretty well)
• My Xbox 360 that uses the wireless-G game adapter
• My PDA that uses the wifi signal

I can't wait until more wireless-N devices come out for my Belkin N1 wireless router (it is a wireless N router).

 

WiFi/WLAN set up for Dial Up Users :hyper:

 

How do you like it from a normal pc? I once thought of buying a laptop myself.

 

Yes that's the max data rate of 802.11g. Of course that's only the data rate between you and the wireless router. Your actual download/surfing speed is going to be lower, limited by the data rate of their connection to their ISP and the activities of other users on the local network.

We've discussed this on other threads, but the typical download speeds that people see today on DSL, cable or home fiber services are anywhere between 3 and 20 Mbps. I am getting download speeds around 4Mbps on Comcast cable. Because of this, for home users, 802.11g really doesn't make as much of a difference over 802.11b (11Mbps) as you might think.

Upload speeds are much lower for DSL and cable subscribers (hence the term "asymmetric") - roughly from 384Kbps to 3Mbps.


SW

 

Good luck with your laptop Dan, my desktop died so I have been relying on my laptop and I love it.

 

Hi WG, I am glad you are enjoying your laptop. I really like mine. Have fun with it.....

 

Actually, the user experience is much different on a G versus B router regardless of the actual ISP connection on the other side. It's like a gateway, so even though your connection is only as good as the weakest link (your ISP connection)...the connection to that choke point will make a difference that will be noticeable to the end user.

 

My desktop is also dying....slowly. So this christmas i think im going to buy myself a WiFi router for my LAN router and then buy a Alienware laptop.

Glad you are liking your laptop walkguru!

I had before but then my dad dropped it and busted the screen to pieces

 

How would you demonstrate this? I can understand that access to local resources, such as a file or application server, would be faster with an 802.11g connection. This could be important in a business or on a college campus. That's why I specified that home users wouldn't see much of a difference, since they typically don't have those kinds of servers on their local network.

Home users are typically accessing the router in order to send/receive data to/from the WAN. If you accept that the connection is only as good as its weakest link (the essence of my argument), I fail to see how faster traffic to the router would make a noticeable difference (say, in rendering a page from cnn.com). If you can propose an experiment, I would be happy to try it (I can set my Linksys WRT54G for either mode).


SW

 

ALienware nice I like those.

 

I also like them.

But, man they are expensive.

 

I specifically referred to a wireless router/gateway. For example, many of the Verizon DSL modems have a gateway for performing NAT and other functions. The 'collection' point that is this gateway is like having another segment of connectivity. The connectivity between your gateway and the pc over the wireless connection using either B or G is usually discernible to the user when connecting to the internet.

Run some speed tests in B and G on your machine. What is your ISP/Service type?

Of course, that's not even accounting for the propagation and capacity advantages of G over B based upon the channel use algorithms.