Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 Is anyone using d-link to link laptop/pc in their home? It will connect your laptop to your desktop so you can share facilities such as printer/internet but is wire-free I've found their UK site but unhelpfully they don't have buy online set up yet. Just wondering how good it is. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 We have the Intel Anypoint Home network wireless lan - pcmcia on the laptop, usb on the pc, no network cards required, can link up to 6 or 8 pcs to share files and internet access. Next time we are going for an ethernet lan card in the pc and a twisted cable and be done with it. Total cost about twenty quid. waiting for her adsl access so that both pooter and laptop can be linked into the same router/splitter. it's like a foreign language :-))) Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 We have the Intel Anypoint Home network wireless lan - pcmcia on the laptop, usb on the pc, no network cards required, can link up to 6 or 8 pcs to share files and internet access. Next time we are going for an ethernet lan card in the pc and a twisted cable and be done with it. Total cost about twenty quid. waiting for her adsl access so that both pooter and laptop can be linked into the same router/splitter. it's like a foreign language :-))) Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 So for that 3 weeks of shared interent access it was a rather expensive > (£180) experiment into wireless home networking. > > Next time we are going for an ethernet lan card in the pc and a twisted > cable and be done with it. Total cost about twenty quid. > > Me, I'm off to email PC *spit* World to see if they will take it back, but > bet they won't. > > Sue > waiting for her adsl access so that both pooter and laptop can be linked > into the same router/splitter. When we networked all the computers in the house (3 desktops and 2 laptops) we thought about wireless first but with DH's desktop being downstairs and the two others, mine and Yeshaya's up in my room, my computer geek and cousin Alan said it wouldn't work (distance wise). So a very nice man came and drilled holes in the ceiling etc and ran cable down from up here to DH's poota down in the study. We have adsl and they are all running off the same router. It's extremely stable, everyone has fast and easy and flat rate internet access and I love it I love it. :-)) Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 Ruthie wrote: So a very nice man came and drilled holes in the ceiling etc and ran cable down from up here to DH's poota down in the study. [sue] Don't the cables drive you mad though, or have you buried them? DH and I describe ourselves as Failed Minimalists and we like clean lines everywhere with no unnecessary cables/pipes etc. We've so far achieved it in our kitchen and bathroom and have a Grand Plan for the house which involves ripping it apart and re-wiring completely to make networking of pc's/phones etc very easy. As well as lots of other hi-tech stuff such as music in each room, those speakers disguised as lamps and pictures, etc and an extension and some re-working of the rooms to allow for open plan. It's only 30yo but there is only one phone point, in the study so we bought the Onis which means we can have extra handsets which just plug in to the electric points. But when I'm there and I want to watch TV and be on the laptop emailing I have to have a phone extension trailing all across the study and hall to the living room. Aaaargh! Finding someone to carry out this vision is difficult though - lots of shaking of heads and muttering from both designers and builders. Because it's a Grand Plan we can't seem to find someone to pull it all together - the electronic architecture people aren't interested in the building work and builders aren't interested in wiring! - Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 At 19:43 15/07/2001 +1000, you wrote: >Is anyone using d-link to link laptop/pc in their home? > >It will connect your laptop to your desktop so you can share >facilities such as printer/internet but is wire-free > >I've found their UK site but unhelpfully they don't have buy online >set up yet. > >Just wondering how good it is. >-- >Sue We have the Intel Anypoint Home network wireless lan - pcmcia on the laptop, usb on the pc, no network cards required, can link up to 6 or 8 pcs to share files and internet access. However i banged my head on the table for 2 days trying to get it to work. It eventually worked but the laptop never shut down properly thereafter and the whole system was incredibly unstable. And now i have discovered that despite storing the card exactly as instructed, the antennae has come loose from the pcmcia card rendering it useless. So for that 3 weeks of shared interent access it was a rather expensive (£180) experiment into wireless home networking. Next time we are going for an ethernet lan card in the pc and a twisted cable and be done with it. Total cost about twenty quid. Me, I'm off to email PC *spit* World to see if they will take it back, but bet they won't. Sue waiting for her adsl access so that both pooter and laptop can be linked into the same router/splitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 > So a very nice man came and drilled holes in the ceiling etc and ran > cable down from up here to DH's poota down in the study. > > [sue] Don't the cables drive you mad though, or have you buried them? I don't think they're actually buried but they certainly aren't trailing all over the show, I thik the very nice man kind of clipped them to the skirting boards. I don't see them at all, in fact. Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 > > Oh Sue, I am sorry. Here you are then > Is that any better? yes, heaps ;-))) as if... Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 At 13:29 15/07/2001 +0100, you wrote: >it's like a foreign language :-))) >Sue Oh Sue, I am sorry. Here you are then We have an Intel Anypoint Home Network wireless (ok so far) LAN (local area network meaning all the computers are linked to each other but not to any outside) - pcmcia (this is a card, just like the ones you have inside a big pc, but it is encased and removable and slots into the side of the laptop like a floppy disk does into a disk drive) on the laptop, usb (universal serial bus, and just another sort of connector) on the pc, no network cards (cos you do normally need them when setting up a network) and you can like up to 6-8 pcs to share files (and so you can be working on the laptop and click on an icon and see what files you have on another pooter) and internet access (meaning two computers can share the same modem and phone line). Next time we are going for an ethernet LAN card (i.e. a proper bit of hardware that sits permanently inside your pc like a sound or graphics card, or modem for that matter) and a twisted cable (don't ask me why twisted but it does mean you only need to connect the two pcs with one single cable and no other extra bits like hubs, however the downside is that you can only connect 2 pooters together) and be done with it. Total cost twenty quid. Waiting for her adsl (this is the digital version of your standard copper telephone line and uses 99% if the capacity on the line as opposed to the standard analogue line (which we all have as this is our phone line) which uses just 1%, and is very much quicker). so that pooter and laptop can be linked into the same router/splitter (ask me about those once i have got them). Is that any better? Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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