Tankus Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 I think I had a fairly good deal on a laptop for the specs ... Its a discontinued advent 7039 that had fairly good reviews earlier on in the year ....I pick it up next week ........ I thought that I would try a bit of mobility ...! plus my Athlon 2000XP is starting to wheeze ...! ADVENT 7039AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor 512 Mb RAM Memory 40 Gb Hard Drive DVD ROM & CD ReWriter Drive 15" TFT Screen 64Mb ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 Graphics Microsoft XP Home & Works 7.0 Wireless Enabled 4 x USB Connections 1 Year FREE Warranty for £720 (inc vat ) Next job is to Wifi the house so that I can chill in the garden ..rather than veg in the home office ..........while here ..!Ive got a BB frog USB modem ...If the laptop has a receiver built in ...is it all that I need is some sort of sender to plug in on the end of my modem, to the laptop ...and another receiver to my main 'puter .... and everything is linked ...?very new to this ....!My old 800 athlon is linked to my 2000 via a USB cable as I use the hard drive as my music backup .. Its slow but it works .....not to sure how to fit all this together .. inexpensively as I'm tapped ....I think Ill leave the USB connection as it is ....I f anybody has any suggestion on how to do this it would be welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 I think what you'd need to get is a Wireless ADSL Modem Router, then you could wireless your new laptop and cable the others to the router, share the internet and files as well :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 You are ADSL not Cable Broadaband? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted July 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 ADSL wanadoo 576K..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Do either of your PCs (The atlon 800 & athlon 2000) have network cards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted July 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Athlon 2000 has got an ethernet card nothing on the 800 .......I ve just bought a belkin wireless BBmodem router .....Need to think about the istructions ...Ill thin Ill have a bash on Sunday ......The laptop rips along ...Runs DVD's and C&C generals without even a jerk , picked it up this afternoon ....It does run a bit hot though ...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 .......I ve just bought a belkin wireless BBmodem router .....Ah but does it have a built in modem? If it does then great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted July 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 dam ...loaded when I posted that ......gonna have a poke around tommorroah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 yep modem too .....Just spent about 3 hours just trying to connect the laptop to my desktop via a USB 1394 network bridge adaptor/connector ....do you think I can get them to see each other .......? went through both set up wizards , the cable is working ...but nothing .....going to give up as I have had enough .....Havnt even taken the router out of the box yet ....thats another mission of frustration Also my XDA outlook refuses to configure so half the sync does not work either ...plug and play ....my arse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 I just plugged my netgear adsl wireless modem router in, put in cd for drivers, it worked first time, then stuck in a netgear wireless card into my laptop it just automatically took everything from XP and it's worked a treat ever since, in fact I am sitting with a beer in the garden at the moment writing this, not much help to you I know, but hey just persevere and you can do the same from the garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 wuuf ...easy peasy for some eh...?I ll try again later I know Athlons get hot ....but this would cook my nads if it was on my lap .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir T Fireball Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 oi oi Tanky.My advent lappy gets very hot too. It's normal I think :P As for the Belking modem/router.....I had to d/load the latest XP drivers for mine to work. Assuming you bought it from PC World like me, it is probably years out of date :D Gluck matey B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Dixons ....(same as ) .........will check the drivers ..when I get round to it ...Sunday is a possibilty ....... Love the lappy ....... well impressed ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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