i am wondering if i can get my laptop upgraded. i bought it in sept but at work i get the internet from outside.. default wireless link.. at home i have wireless no probs at all. at work it sucks.. my shift partner gets the net and has no disconnect problems .. i have tonnes. i want to play poker to kill time but when i do i get disconnected all the time.. (very bad as i play for real money) i have the 3 year ext. coverage plan.. i fthat helps at all. if you need to know the specs let me know where i can look to get them.. its a compaq and cost me bout 850 in sept.. thanks. lipps
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i am wondering if i can get my laptop upgraded. i bought it in sept but at work i get the internet from outside.. default wireless link.. at home i have wireless no probs at all. at work it sucks.. my shift partner gets the net and has no disconnect problems .. i have tonnes. i want to play poker to kill time but when i do i get disconnected all the time.. (very bad as i play for real money) i have the 3 year ext. coverage plan.. i fthat helps at all. if you need to know the specs let me know where i can look to get them.. its a compaq and cost me bout 850 in sept.. thanks. lipps
When you say you get Internet from the outside what do you mean\who is the provider? What is your signal strength (bars) at work vs. at home? Assume you are using Vista, wireless G or wireless N card? Do you get disconnects while using other applications (browser, streaming music\videos, file downloads) or just this one poker site?
Those are the kind of questions he needs answered before diagnosing your issue, ext. warranty and price you paid,.. not so much.
When you say you get Internet from the outside what do you mean\who is the provider? What is your signal strength (bars) at work vs. at home? Assume you are using Vista, wireless G or wireless N card? Do you get disconnects while using other applications (browser, streaming music\videos, file downloads) or just this one poker site?
Those are the kind of questions he needs answered before diagnosing your issue, ext. warranty and price you paid,.. not so much.
Yeah, could just be your card doesn't like the wireless router at work. See it all the time. I had some Dell laptops about 5 years ago that just wouldn't work at a certain convention center, they worked great everywhere else. I had to put PCMCIA cards in all of them everytime I went to that place.
Just get you a wirless PCMCIA card you plug in the side of the laptop. Will make all the difference in the world. Go ahead and get an N card.
Yeah, could just be your card doesn't like the wireless router at work. See it all the time. I had some Dell laptops about 5 years ago that just wouldn't work at a certain convention center, they worked great everywhere else. I had to put PCMCIA cards in all of them everytime I went to that place.
Just get you a wirless PCMCIA card you plug in the side of the laptop. Will make all the difference in the world. Go ahead and get an N card.
Before throwing money at a problem you might want to know what the actual problem is... that and most newer laptops no long support PCMCIA cards.
Considering I have been repairing them since the Osbourne laptop came out. (Look it up) About the same time I started the business, I have a pretty good read on trobleshooting computers.
BTW, it's just mainly the higher end laptops that use the expresscards and most of them have models that have both of them PCMCIA and Express. Also they have the lessor known PC Card slots.
So when you have your busines open for 25 years and do business with a good bit the Fortune 500 companies then give me advice on giving advice.
Quote Originally Posted by JosepheusJones:
Before throwing money at a problem you might want to know what the actual problem is... that and most newer laptops no long support PCMCIA cards.
Considering I have been repairing them since the Osbourne laptop came out. (Look it up) About the same time I started the business, I have a pretty good read on trobleshooting computers.
BTW, it's just mainly the higher end laptops that use the expresscards and most of them have models that have both of them PCMCIA and Express. Also they have the lessor known PC Card slots.
So when you have your busines open for 25 years and do business with a good bit the Fortune 500 companies then give me advice on giving advice.
Considering I have been repairing them since the Osbourne laptop came out. (Look it up) About the same time I started the business, I have a pretty good read on trobleshooting computers.
BTW, it's just mainly the higher end laptops that use the expresscards and most of them have models that have both of them PCMCIA and Express. Also they have the lessor known PC Card slots.
So when you have your busines open for 25 years and do business with a good bit the Fortune 500 companies then give me advice on giving advice.
I dont doubt your troubleshooting skills, but you did no troubleshooting.
As far as PCMCIA card slots still being available on most laptops shipping today you are wrong, well right about part of it, higher end laptops have express card slots, mid-range and low end usually have neither. I havent seen a laptop that shipped with one in over a year and this from Wikipedia...
ExpressCard is a later specification from the PCMCIA, intended as a replacement for PC Card, built around the PCI Express and USB 2.0 standards. The PC Card standard is closed to further development and PCMCIA strongly encourages future product designs to utilize the ExpressCard interface. As of 2007, the majority of laptops now ship with only ExpressCard slots or neither slot type (leaving expansion to USB and Firewire only), though the Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and Z60m, among other models, currently ships with both CardBus and ExpressCard slots.
Quote Originally Posted by Lippsman:
Considering I have been repairing them since the Osbourne laptop came out. (Look it up) About the same time I started the business, I have a pretty good read on trobleshooting computers.
BTW, it's just mainly the higher end laptops that use the expresscards and most of them have models that have both of them PCMCIA and Express. Also they have the lessor known PC Card slots.
So when you have your busines open for 25 years and do business with a good bit the Fortune 500 companies then give me advice on giving advice.
I dont doubt your troubleshooting skills, but you did no troubleshooting.
As far as PCMCIA card slots still being available on most laptops shipping today you are wrong, well right about part of it, higher end laptops have express card slots, mid-range and low end usually have neither. I havent seen a laptop that shipped with one in over a year and this from Wikipedia...
ExpressCard is a later specification from the PCMCIA, intended as a replacement for PC Card, built around the PCI Express and USB 2.0 standards. The PC Card standard is closed to further development and PCMCIA strongly encourages future product designs to utilize the ExpressCard interface. As of 2007, the majority of laptops now ship with only ExpressCard slots or neither slot type (leaving expansion to USB and Firewire only), though the Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and Z60m, among other models, currently ships with both CardBus and ExpressCard slots.
Let me give you some real world experience. We order at least 75 a month and a good deal of them still have PCMCIA somewhat. And yes we do a great deal of Lenovo sales, big business' still love Big Blue. Also the smaller business' are getting the bargin bin Dell's and they have actual PCMCIA's. Another also, most people hold on to laptops a very long time. Which all of them have just PCMCIA's. You don't see laptops coming into the shop that are less than a couple of years old very often.
And if the guy goes to the with laptop in hand or tells them the model it would be no problem with them saying hey this takes an express card.
Also in the industry the slots are still called PCMCIA even though they are express card bus.
Acronyms hold hard, they always have in this business.
Now it's time to patch some servers on the other side of the country.
Didn't mean to go off like I did.....
But for gods sake.....Wikipedia.........
Let me give you some real world experience. We order at least 75 a month and a good deal of them still have PCMCIA somewhat. And yes we do a great deal of Lenovo sales, big business' still love Big Blue. Also the smaller business' are getting the bargin bin Dell's and they have actual PCMCIA's. Another also, most people hold on to laptops a very long time. Which all of them have just PCMCIA's. You don't see laptops coming into the shop that are less than a couple of years old very often.
And if the guy goes to the with laptop in hand or tells them the model it would be no problem with them saying hey this takes an express card.
Also in the industry the slots are still called PCMCIA even though they are express card bus.
Acronyms hold hard, they always have in this business.
Now it's time to patch some servers on the other side of the country.
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