I'll start from the begining.... ;)

 

A few weeks ago I was in B&Q, and spotted that they were getting rid of some wireless PC components (old stock, not selling). Now they were selling them at reasonable prices, like £25 for the router and £12 for a card. So I bought a PC card and the router (didn't buy the laptop card at the time :headvswal ) The idea being that I'd hard-wire the main PC and then put the card into the second PC, but this hasnt happened yet as the (proposed) media centre isnt going ahead at the moment. So I've just been running the old PC with a cable, which works fine.

Anyway last week I bought a laptop, ready for my ConZult, so I went back to B&Q to see if they had any of the laptop wireless cards left, well they didn't :headvswal

So I took a look on e-bay and came across an 'Untested' card of the same type and make as that I already had. I won the auction for a mear £3.94 (Inc P&P) it turned up today and I've spent most of the rest of the day trying to set it up. After hours of :headvswal I'm now sat in my lounge watching the TV and sending this post, totally wireless :D

I also bought a Orange 3G sim card for my mobile, so that when I'm out and about in the Zed with the laptop, and want to check somthing on here, I can do that as well. The draw-back to that is that my mobile isnt 3g, but I should be able to obtain a better internet connection. Saying that I'm still able to obtain 115kbps with my normal sim card, which the guy at Orange was quite surprised at.

So I'm fully mobile now, just need two things, one of Dannys ConZult packages and my zed back on the road :D

 

 

 

(Sorry for the essay)

Yeh its much better, i got rid of my desktop last year and went for a desktop replacement laptop with wireless, bluetooth etc etc and i also have a work laptop so all on a wireless network along with a print server so its great i just click print and i hear it printing upstairs in the spare room :) sweet

 

Kirbz

Nicely done Dave - looking at getting a Laptop myself later on this year and doing the same sort of thing.

all i would say is i went for the best one i could afford but the battery lasts about 1 hour!! so hardly mobile lmao