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masseur
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@Uncle Bob, yeah I have that same one too and the same movies play just as fine on my JAM. I use betaplayer to play them. actually I don't bother with movies, just lots of music videos. but I guess this is a bit off topic now
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absinthebri
Joined: Feb 11, 2004
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From: London, UK
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I'm buying an HP Compaq nx6110 tomorrow. :-)
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carkitter
Joined: Apr 29, 2005
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From: Auckland, NZ
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My COMPAQ Presario V2020AP complete with B/T dongle and wireless LAN. 
Only computer I've ever owned, bought in March of this year.
We don't have heaps of space to put a desktop so I chose a laptop.
Use it every day and when I'm not, my wife and son are. Hasn't missed a beat yet. Love that widescreen. Would have bought a VIAO or IBM simply on reputation but the budget wouldn't stretch that far.
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k700nut
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i favour dell,and have used an inspiron 8600 for the past few months.quite good imo.
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DJcreamz
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my emachines has served me well as has my toshiba
i dont know the model numbers off hand i will find out tho.
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amnesia
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I own a custom built Toshiba P20 Dual processor laptop. 3.2Ghz. nVideo Gforce 5200
Just recentely upgraded to 2gb ram. 17inch widescreen.
A Macbook 2.0ghz duo, 60gb hard-disk, wifi, etc.... (for taking to uni)
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carkitter
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Just bought a Belkin wireless router to use at home. Awesome! Now I can use my broadband connection anywhere in the house. The wife approves because it gets all our cables off the floor and away from the kids. Cost NZ$99. Now my laptop is cable free and truly portable - I love it. Anyone else using WLAN at home, etc? |
masseur
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I've been using WLAN at home for about 5 years and have never looked back. The kids can carry their laptops from their bedrooms to their tv/living room and still be connected. I can use my laptop anywhere and even surf while on the loo or in the bath on my handheld
WLAN has become more important with brandband connections too since these routers make it so easy to share the connection
just be sure to put some simple WEP security key in there and change it once fortnight or so.
If you are in a residential area you are probably at little risk but you never know who might be watching
and once its all configured you should disable the sending of the SSID if your router supports that. All these things help to make it a little more secure
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DJcreamz
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All great advice. Ive done all of the above and I have set static IP's to all the machines connected to the router, i have then only alowd these 3 ip's to connect making sure that nothing can get on my network.
Its great for playing counter strikie in the bath 
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masseur
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I only added static IP to our HP printer/scanner/copier/fax thingy which has a network module in it so we can all share. The HP driver software gets upset when it can't find the device on the same IP address
you did remind me that most routers also support MAC address lists and its worth adding those in too for the devices that will connect to the router
the more security the better really. its not being paranoid but if the options are there then they might as well be used
I say the same to my wife about the steering lock we have in the car. she can't be bothered to put it on most of the time and so it sits on the passenger side floor. One day someone might well nick the car and there will be the steering lock on the floor! how ironic would that be!
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DJcreamz
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yer so true. Same applies to people who take off there face of radio's and put them in the glove box! everyone does that im sure the thief's know this.
Its the old "put the radio on when we are on holiday so they think someone's in" situation!!
I cant get my Copier/printer to sit on my network what ever i do, its a right pain. I had a lot of problems with the firewalls on the PC/laptops aswell, they conected fine but they wouldnt see each other so we could share the internet but couldnt get share files/places. In the end i switched form a D-Link to a netgear on the recomendation of AOL and it all works fine.
Hardware firewall's are well and good but i dont completly trust them.
As you say Mas you can never be to carefull.
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bonito99
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I just use an old acer travelmate 280
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carkitter
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Simple WEP? SSID? Static IP? Err, excuse my naivity but I've no idea what you mean.
At present I just unplug to router when not in use.
I'd prefer some security measures but I'm not sure how.
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mvinodkuumarr
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I have hp pavilion ze4900 till date no issues with it works just fine :-)
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On 2005-06-02 16:15:05, amnesia wrote:
I own a custom built Toshiba P20 Dual processor laptop.
Just recentely upgraded to 2gb ram. 17inch widescreen.
An iBook 1.2ghz, 30gb hard-disk, wifi, etc.... 12inch (for taking to uni)
Just got a Powerbook a well, fully loaded to the max.
Also a Mac mini but you didn't ask for that 
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