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My fiancé in China has an ancient computer about ready to die. It connects to the internet with ADSL plugged into the computer, nothing wireless.So I bought her a Sony VAIO NR430E/P, it is wifi capable.My question is what do I need to buy from you guys to get her wireless, do I need a DLS modem and a router or just a wireless modem?

I want to know if you can take one network wire coming into the office and put it in some kind of junction box so that i can run 2 computers online with one network.  The modem is not in the office it comes through a wall.  Can anyone help with this.  Yes people I am very computer illiterate.  Thank you for any information you ...

Hi All - Love it or hate it, I'm strongly considering picking up a Drobo 2.  I'm still a bit irked that the DroboShare is a separate component and further irked that it can only be connected over USB 2.0 instead of the newly added FireWire.  I don't know the stats offhand to know for sure whether or not USB 2.0 could be a bottleneck in a ...

I'm back at my old job... and what do you know, we're swamped. As always. Gotta love working for the school district. At any rate, our office computers are unable to view workgroup computers with the workgroup name as WORKGROUP. However, if we switch it over to another generic name like MSHOME we can see and access everything a-ok. I got in on the ...

I want to get a wireless card for this pc, but I know very little about wireless cards. Can you tell me, in general, what is important to look for in terms of wirless cards for PCs?  It will be used in a place that could be quite distant from the router with machines, toolboxes, and vehicles blocking the signal (it will be in a vehicle ...

Hi. I'm on a quest to quite down my office.  When you add all of the ''moving parts'' it becomes pretty loud here... So, I bought a fanless switch -- HP ProCurve 24 port.  And while it is noiseless, it also get VERY hot.  Kinda defeats the purpose... I decided to try another angle, and the above switch (GS724T) got hi marks for ...

I'm in the market for a good gigabit switch for home use. I need to be able to transfer large files between pc's fast. It will be used in conjunction with a Linksys WRT54G router. There are so many models at similar price points. I definitely do not want to spend more then $100, preferably less but so many switches on newegg have really poor ...

I have one running at my home.  The setup: Cable modem Cisco firewall 515 PIX 8-port 10/100 Netgear switch Belkin 802.11b/g wireless router The firewall is just an ''extra'' in the setup, so that I can VPN easily between work and home.  But provides essential services that typically are bundled in the modern cable modems such as ...

I just bought a new Dell Latitude D830 over Christmas.  They also talked me into a little $50 printer,  a 926 AIO.  Actually, it is a pretty good little printer, but i am getting tired of connecting and disconnecting the USB cable every time I need to print something.  I think there should be some way to make this work with ...

hi, i've been looking for a mini-pcie wireless adapter to replace the one in my laptop for a while now. i can't seem to find any mini-pcie adapters on newegg though, let alone one with the specific chipset i need.  i use linux on my laptop, so i'm looking for a mini-pcie adapter with an atheros, orinoco, prism3 or broadcom 43xx chipset, as ...

I am trying to find out which Gigabit switch would be best for our LAN Parties, and keep coming across varying specs for Buffer Memory.  Here are some versions I have seen while investigating:256K per device400K512K per port2MB buffer memoryWhat is best?  It would make sense to me that 512K per port would be best, but is that a ...

Greetings all, I have an average understanding of wireless connections. I have several pc's wirelessly connected to this Linksys router (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124024) WRT55AG. It uses the A + G bands. I have not had any connection issues until recently. I did a new build, taking my Linksys wireless card ...

I've been using a Netgear WPN824 RangeMax wireless router with a Netgear WG111T wireless USB adapter with 32-bit Vista.  I need to also use 64-bit Server 2003, so I set up my system to dual boot.  However, none of the Netgear WG111T drivers I tried (versions 1.3 and 2.1) support 64-bit Server 2003. Does anyone know of a reliable ...

Last Updated: 9/21/2007 5:38 CT  This post is to help someone new to network security (for the home). Some limited knowledge of networking is a plus, but not necessary. Topics that will be covered: Security by DesignRoutersWirelessBroadcastingEncryptionMAC FilteringDHCPWiredDMZ IDSRoot's Thoughts  Security by Design You ...

I'm new at all this computer and internet stuff, even though I have been in the Computer Hardware Industry for 20+ years. PCB Desiger by trade. Worked on Unix Mainframes thru PC's. Used almost all OS's with the exception of MAC. Looking at the possibility of working for myself. Trying to decide what to do with the ''Rest of my life''. Currently ...