New Toy

[edmondo]

Yo folks just praticing with new toy on holiday.................

[martyg]

u got new mobile laptop or summat!

[rae_sti]

knowing ed its a carrier pigeon msg back home for son to post on pc

[martyg]

[edmondo]

Jacqui went into town with her mum and came back with a laptop! only thing was person who sold it to her said she did not require a wireless router to access internet so borrowing my mums at mo!

[kevlorn]

so this means you will be popping on here more often then Ed.....

[edmondo]

Yep mate.............watching Gillette Soccer Saturday and posting..................however Laptops are so frustratingly slow

[kevlorn]

my laptop is quick bud...whats slow on it?

[edmondo]

just takes ages to post and to skip from 1 forum to another

[kevlorn]

must be something wrong on it........i'm not a computer wizz but i hope someone comes along who can shed some light on your problem...as i said mine is fast...

[edmondo]

it seems quick at the mo.......but sometimes it can take 5 mins a post

[stinger]

i would guess you are using wireless.

[scooby princess]

I love this thing! was able to get on with the gardening yesturday and all ed was doing was watching footy, posting on forums and drinking his beer - oh my a male who can multi task HELP!!!!

[edmondo]

  SCOOBY PRINCESS said:

I love this thing! was able to get on with the gardening yesturday and all ed was doing was watching footy, posting on forums and drinking his beer - oh my a male who can multi task HELP!!!!

and it was tiring as well

[edmondo]

  stinger said:

i would guess you are using wireless.

yep

[stinger]

could be your problem, signal dropping

[edmondo]

  stinger said:

could be your problem, signal dropping

explain in english for the simple minded please

[kevlorn]

your can of lager is in the way of the signal..

[stinger]

Wellll.......

Its a radio signal so all sorts of stuff can interfere with them, so it can depend on whats happening at any given time or where you are using the laptop.

Prime culprits for interfering with wireless.... brick walls (!), microwaves, cordless phones, electrical wiring & bluetooth signals.

Also if you are using the windows wireless utility that can have problems, in that the signal drops every few minutes for a little while.

Main thing is, if its a constant problem, go into your router set up page and you can usually change the radio channel it transmits on (1-11), find one that works best.

I had to give up on wireless when i lived in a flat that was in a converted village courthouse/police station/police lockup, it had 3 foot thick stone walls all through and the wireless was useless. Most modern houses arent like that though lol.

[edmondo]

  parker1 said:

your can of lager is in the way of the signal..

thanks I will drink it quicker

[edmondo]

  stinger said:

Wellll.......

Its a radio signal so all sorts of stuff can interfere with them, so it can depend on whats happening at any given time or where you are using the laptop.

Prime culprits for interfering with wireless.... brick walls (!), microwaves, cordless phones, electrical wiring & bluetooth signals.

Also if you are using the windows wireless utility that can have problems, in that the signal drops every few minutes for a little while.

Main thing is, if its a constant problem, go into your router set up page and you can usually change the radio channel it transmits on (1-11), find one that works best.

I had to give up on wireless when i lived in a flat that was in a converted village courthouse/police station/police lockup, it had 3 foot thick stone walls all through and the wireless was useless. Most modern houses arent like that though lol.

sometimes I think its the Norton working in the background whilst we log on