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Offline gravdigr

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Re: Linux for laptop
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2010, 08:39:40 PM »
Quote from: decepticon on March 30, 2010, 12:26:20 PM
Rathe, I read the Fudgeing post....He is complaining that the signal doesn't like to go through steel walls and his video is stuttering.  The USB card is probably one of the causes as it is not getting a decent signal from what I am gathering from his comment about the signal not going through steel walls.


Oh no you didn't....if you had you would have seen this in my original post...

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The wireless card for the laptop sits in a window and gets signal from my house.

hehe

Anyway, I used to have a better laptop in my building and used this very wireless card to connect to my home network and would stream netflix movies in hd with no problem.  So signal strength was not a problem.  But sometimes I have a few friends over goofing around and we do not want to stretch network cables to connect our other laptops to the network.  That's where the wap comes in.  I bridge the wireless network to ethernet then hook up the wap to provide wireless access inside.

I think linux will do that more effeciently.  I was hoping it could help this old computer playback dvd's and video files as well.
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Re: Linux for laptop
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2010, 11:03:27 PM »
Hmm, why is it I can never get a linux install to actually work.  Every time something goes wrong.  This time I spend the better part of an hour installing and when I reboot all I get is "Insert system disc in drive.  Press any key when ready..."  It worked fine when I ran it off the cd but it doesn't boot when I install it.
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Re: Linux for laptop
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2010, 07:12:38 AM »
Quote from: gravdigr on March 30, 2010, 08:39:40 PM
Quote from: decepticon on March 30, 2010, 12:26:20 PM
Rathe, I read the Fudgeing post....He is complaining that the signal doesn't like to go through steel walls and his video is stuttering.  The USB card is probably one of the causes as it is not getting a decent signal from what I am gathering from his comment about the signal not going through steel walls.


Oh no you didn't....if you had you would have seen this in my original post...

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The wireless card for the laptop sits in a window and gets signal from my house.

hehe

Anyway, I used to have a better laptop in my building and used this very wireless card to connect to my home network and would stream netflix movies in hd with no problem.  So signal strength was not a problem.  But sometimes I have a few friends over goofing around and we do not want to stretch network cables to connect our other laptops to the network.  That's where the wap comes in.  I bridge the wireless network to ethernet then hook up the wap to provide wireless access inside.

I think linux will do that more effeciently.  I was hoping it could help this old computer playback dvd's and video files as well.


Well then....I stand corrected.  <facepalm>
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