The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[buksida]

Richard, surely for the huge amount of hassle you're having with this Free Citywide service that only runs at 100k it would be worth shelling out a couple of baht for a decent internet connection and not bothering with it anymore?

[Super Joe]

We've just got a new TOT internet line/router installed in a building about 30 metres from our house, and the speed seems very good so far, much better than my current Truemove 3G connection. Problem is my own laptop can not recevie the WiFi signal unless I sit in the garden near the wall, it shows 2 bars 'poor signal strength' in my house, but that won't connect. Mate who's staying in the other building where the router is, can get full 5 bar signal strength on his 25 year old lap top when sitting in my house.

The router is a TP-Link 'TD-W8901G' with a supposed 'Powerful 5dBi antenna for long-range WiFi coverage' (their words) but it looks just like any other black plastic-coated 6" long antenna, and my laptop has Broadcom 802.11n adaptor, is it about the 'g' and the 'n' ? Do I want to install a 'g' adaptor or can I reconfig my current one to a 'g' ?

Can you buy any booster kits, a massive aerial to screw in the router, or something that plugs in my laptop USB to boost signal receving?

Can I hardwire a line from the router into my house and put one of these 'access point' boxes in? if yes is that something I just go and buy, or does it have to be specially configured with the TOT router?

Or shall I just knock the missus on the head and go sleep in his bed, again?

Any help appreciated,

SJ

[buksida]

Can I hardwire a line from the router into my house and put one of these 'access point' boxes in? if yes is that something I just go and buy, or does it have to be specially configured with the TOT router?

Providing it is less than 100 meters you can run a length of CAT5 cable from the router/hub into your house/office computer, this will then give you a hard-line connection which should run faster than the wireless one. Anything over 100m will cause the signal to degrade as will running it near any power cables.

[poosmate]

If Hardwire is easy to do then you will only need to buy a cable. The router has 4 ports. I did this for someone - measured and bought a cable ( 10 Baht meter) with plugs attached from a local shop. Much better signal this way.

[Super Joe]

Yeah, thats a good idea, never thought of that. It will be a bit of a pain getting to the room I need as it's literally the furthest corner of the house away from the router, but still well under 100m.

I'll do that first, but can I also plug a access point box into that to give me WiFi around the house?

Cheers,
SJ

[richard]

Richard, surely for the huge amount of hassle you're having with this Free Citywide service that only runs at 100k it would be worth shelling out a couple of baht for a decent internet connection and not bothering with it anymore?

Done and dusted. Got 3BB now Happy as a sand-boy

[buksida]

I'll do that first, but can I also plug a access point box into that to give me WiFi around the house?

Yep, just plug the incoming cable into a wifi hub/router and configure it the same a the original one and voila!

As mentioned above though you'll get a better signal (faster connection) through the hard-line.

[Super Joe]

Thanks, I did the cable thing yesterday and that works great plugged in, cheers.

SJ

[BaaBaa.]

Before when I hovered over the Firefox logo in the taskbar (WIN 7) it would bring up live screens of all the tabs and you could select where to go, basically the same as tabs but cooler. Has this changed with an update or something as it's now just showing the current open tab.

[Super Joe]

Before when I hovered over the Firefox logo in the taskbar (WIN 7) it would bring up live screens of all the tabs and you could select where to go, basically the same as tabs but cooler. Has this changed with an update or something as it's now just showing the current open tab.

right-click the taskbar area and make sure this 'use aero peek' box is ticked!?

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SJ

[BaaBaa.]

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Already is mate, that's the tiny little thing at the bottom right hand side that you hover over and it instantly shows your desktop, gadgets etc.

You on Win7 SJ?

[Super Joe]

Yes, but as you just saw, not used it for very long!!

Just looked it up and it's about 'Aero Themes' not 'Aero Peek', sorry bout that, this link might help:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52 ... sable.html

SJ

[BaaBaa.]

Yes, but as you just saw, not used it for very long!!

Just looked it up and it's about 'Aero Themes' not 'Aero Peek', sorry bout that, this link might help:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52 ... sable.html

SJ

Cheers mate, I'll have a proper look in the morning, it looks typically over complicated as usual.

I've probably changed a setting, Windows has F'd it up and I've got to go and change some registry info.

I thought Win7 was over this crap. Oh well, I've just finished Spartacus Blood and Sand and it kicked ass, now onto Gods of the Arena.

[BaaBaa.]

I just had to tick a box in the tab options on FF.

[Spitfire]

I'll put this in here rather than start a thread, but have been wondering about my 4 year old desktop recently. When I bought it it was not bad, but starting to wonder about it now.

Recently, have put Windows 7 on it and seems happy enough but if I start multitasking like running a scan plus downloading something and wanting to surf on another tab too then it chews up about 800+ or so RAM, and with tweaking software that stops the memory leaks etc it probably frees up about 100 extra RAM.

Desktop is 1 gig of RAM, ASUS mother board, 3 mega hertz HP processor single core, admittedly it's a bit old now.

It appears that 1 gig of RAM isn't enough these days, or is it that my processor belongs in a museum?

Would going dual core ease this problem?

Firefox 4 seems to be fine but slows up a bit with the multitasking ask, guess it's my hardware then.

Any enlightening thoughts or facts?