[AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations - question on wireless routers...

[Cecil Bearden]

If someone has some advice on this I could sure use it..   I am getting 
broadband installed, but I want to do a little more with it.  I need to put 
those internet cameras in  my lambing barns so I can watch the ewes without 
having to always go out at all hours oaf the night.   My house is wrapped in 
aluminum foil to keep the alien heat out, and I have a steel roof.  The 
barns are all steel also and my shop is a steel building.  The new Linksys 
router is a 8.11N style that is supposed to have 4 times the range...

I want to put the Broadband antenna on a pole and have a router next to it. 
Then link my laptop in the house, the old one in the barn, and the cameras 
in the sheep barns and also another computer we use in the truck.

How do I do it??

Cecil in OKla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations - Update


>
> Mike,
>
> As far as I know there are 3 wireless network options that are readily 
> available.  The old one and the one I have is 802.11 B.  It's kinda slow. 
> Then there is 802.11 G and I think it's a lot faster but I haven't used 
> it. There is another new one that I don't know the name of and I assume 
> that is the way folks are going now.
>
> There isn't all that much to setting it up.  You just buy the router and 
> hook it up.  Mine has ports in the back to hard wire stuff that doesn't 
> have a wireless LAN card.
>
> I'll stop because there are others that know a heck of a lot more about it 
> than I do.   I think you'll be happy with the Toshiba.  I'm not saying it 
> is best but it should do a good job and their support is great.  Keep the 
> box it came in so you will have a way to ship it if something does go 
> wrong.
>
> Charlie
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> From: <msm10301 at juno.com>
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> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations - Update
>
>
> Well, my wife and I went shopping this afternoon and we found a Toshiba 
> laptop that we liked, Centrino Duo, 1.5MG ram and a 120G HD, with Windows 
> Media Center edition. It should serve us well for a long time. Now comes 
> the task of trying to hook up a wireless network for both the new computer 
> and a printer. Has anyone done that recently? Any advice? Thanks for all 
> the help.
> Regards, Mike
>
> -- "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net> wrote:
> Mike I've never owned but one laptop, the one I'm typing on now, so I 
> can't
> actually say this is an informed opinion but I'm very happy with it. 
> It's
> a Toshiba.  It's 3 or is it 4 years old now and I've never had a minutes
> trouble with it except for a cooling fan that started acting up.  I 
> replaced
> it for about $15 bucks.
>
> I store lots of pictures and recieve and send big files over the internet 
> on
> a regular basis.  Works great.
>
> Charlie
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> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:24 PM
> Subject: [AT] OT - Laptop reccomendations
>
>
> I've been thinking about sidelining our desktop and switching to a laptop
> instead. Ideally, I would like to install a wireless router so that my 
> wife
> and I are not tied to the desk if we want to surf the web or read email. 
> My
> question is, what type should I be looking for, and what features are
> important? I know very little about the chip sets used in laptops, and how
> they compare with the ones used in desktops. Here's what I would need the
> laptop to do. Internet and email (wireless), Microsoft Office 
> applications,
> digital camera storage. Our desktop is a PIII 1GZ and it works just fine 
> for
> what we do. Any thoughts with regards to brands/features would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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