Does he need one of these?
01 March 2010, 06:19 PM
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Does he need one of these?
My son shares a house in Dublin and is set up for wireless on his own old PC running XP probably with 1.0 USB ports. The router is somewhere else in the house.
He can connect up usually but connections keep failing and he thinks the plug in adapter he uses (like a memory stick) is dodgy as it needs a thump to get it going. So I said I would get another if they weren't too expensive and see if that fixed things.
Now I haven't a clue what he needs so would it be one of these please?
Amazon.co.uk: usb wireless adapter
And which one as they seem to vary in price.
Is that enough to go on as I don't really know much more
Cheers, David
He can connect up usually but connections keep failing and he thinks the plug in adapter he uses (like a memory stick) is dodgy as it needs a thump to get it going. So I said I would get another if they weren't too expensive and see if that fixed things.
Now I haven't a clue what he needs so would it be one of these please?
Amazon.co.uk: usb wireless adapter
And which one as they seem to vary in price.
Is that enough to go on as I don't really know much more
Cheers, David
Last edited by David Lock; 01 March 2010 at 06:20 PM.
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Is he on a tight budget? Id always recommend homeplugs instead of wireless. These 85Mb ones for £42 delivered for the pair (youll need one for the router end and one for his pc) will be fine and a much more stable connection:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Value-Mb...7551028&sr=8-1
If his housemates went that way they could split the cost of the homeplug for the router end thus even cheapear. Downside is you do need a spare power socket at each end.
Depends on budget and how stable a connection he needs. For online gaming I would never go back to wireless.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Value-Mb...7551028&sr=8-1
If his housemates went that way they could split the cost of the homeplug for the router end thus even cheapear. Downside is you do need a spare power socket at each end.
Depends on budget and how stable a connection he needs. For online gaming I would never go back to wireless.
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02 March 2010, 06:33 PM
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Simon - thanks. It's not so much as a tight budget, more a zero budget 
But point taken but will probably leave that until he returns to UK.
Scoobythingy - you have a point there. He is quite good at ignoring the instruction manual and getting things going though
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But point taken but will probably leave that until he returns to UK.Scoobythingy - you have a point there. He is quite good at ignoring the instruction manual and getting things going though
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