I don't like it at all. I've been wireless ever since my PC got moved downstairs when our computer room turned back into a bedroom (last august), and my PC disconnects all the time. So I should get my act together and reinstall windows again as it looks as if I have some process hogging thing installed, that I might be able to miss out with a reinstall. But it's a pain in the bottom.

The other wireless PC next to mine, on the other hand, works just fine. But it hasn't got most of the stuff I use on it, as it's a much lower spec PC and it wouldn't be able to cope.

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Is your laptop near retirement age?

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Haven't even thought of going wireless yet although it does sound like something that I might want to try. So tired of tripping on the cable cords. Matter of fact I have only started to expand to broadband since January. This last month I finally upgraded to the fastest speed that I can get in this area. Well have to visit the see ya

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My laptop is PAST retirement age, poor thing. So far I haven't had any software problems, but it is physically falling apart. Little itty-bitty plastic connectors that hold it together are snapping. The monitor part is plastic-welded because of that. Basically, it's succumbing to planned obsolesence.

Hardware-wise, it's out of date. Wal-Mart computers can kick it all the way to the beginning of time and back. However, it has served its purpose incredibly well, which was to get me through college. So I can't complain too much.

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Tempory Frisker

Are you talking about wireless broadband or going wireless? As in wireless networking?

Oh and the internet was invented long before the 80's you probably mean the old BBS services you used to get. It was the introduction of DNS which really enabled the Internet we now know to take off.

I remember them BBS systems well.

Anyway wireless broadband is not as good as it once was. Whilst my broadband service was extremely fast in the past it is now not so. It seems line services have vastly taken over the wireless broadband markets for home users.

In fact we may be changing back to a landline service.

As for wireless networking you have to remember that contention will sometimes give only half the speed you get through a standard cat 5 lead.

Plus you have to be wary of people scanning their local neighbourhood for wireless networks to jump on and start stealing their bandwidth.

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I remember the wireless internet service my company used to have - we had to be in line of sight from the aerial (or was it a dish?) on top of the office roof to the broadcasting pylon on top of a hill several miles away. Because it had taken a long time to get permission from the office building owners to put the aerial/dish up, 150-200 of us had been struggling along with one insufficient wire for a long, long time and when we got our wireless internet access we were just blown away by the speed of it.

And apparently it could have gone 1000 times faster too. I was so impressed. But, since being bought out a few times, that system and office have long since gone. Now all our email is stuck on a server 80 miles away, meaning it takes a long time to open anything, and for a while our internet access came through a slow wan link from a (poxy) proxy 50 miles away. Ah, for the heady days when servers were vaguely local and we had some control over ITS policies.

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Heh. My parents live out in the middle of nowhere. They've been told that they can expect fast landlines in about 20 years. No broadband, no cable. They use dial-up, and the distance they live means that they get about 24kbs, if they're lucky.

I didn't know that distance affected other forms either. I learned something today!

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Yeah...they're waiting for satellite internet to get cheaper. It isn't very popular due to the fact that it's expensive, but it's the fastest service that they'd be able to get in their area. Dad had it when he was still working for a software company. He could upload a terabyte of information in an hour or so. Of course, when he retired, they didn't pay for that anymore.

But yeah, in 20 years, landlines are going to be obsolete. It'll be too bad, because I'm not really one for weird things in my brain. >_>

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It's REALLY expensive, from what I've heard. Again, the stuff my dad had was provided by the company he worked for. I never used it, though I would drool over it occasionally. It'll take a long time before it's cheap enough to be used outside of the electronic corporate world.

8 meg broadband for free? Not bad, not bad. Free is a pretty good deal (though I've found that there are often things that you're already paying for that cover what the company "loses" for giving away items).

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