Pete
Bloody marvellous!
I have just aquired and set up wirless broadband at home on my laptop and it is absolutey cracking.
No dialing, No waiting and No wires - this is the way forward!
Yeah broadband is brilliant, lets you download dirty movies 10 times faster than your old modem
Pete
Pete,
I hadn't thought of that very valuable benefit of broadbad.
And, where would I go to get such movies...?
wireless broadband is the future, you can sit anywhere you like and surf - in the garden enjoying a few beers, in the toilet, in the garage getting some beers, next door having a few beers.... the list is endless
I've had wireless broadband here for about 7 months now. The desktop system sits under the stairs quietly ticking away while it acquires all
sorts of goodies via e-mule while this laptop I'm tapping away on now is the household browser of choice - wherever we choose to sit down. Living
room - bog - bed - back garden - you choose.
Wireless broadband - it's the future ( just like garlic bread ).
Oh no - I just admitted to surfing from the smallest room in the house. Am I alone in this activity 
I find the reception is crap in that particular area!
oldgit
I too have the wireless thang going for the laptop. I haven't managed to get my Linux (Mandrake 9.2) setup running properly with the 3Com
wireless PCMCIA card
Prior to wireless I made a 20m-ish network cable and trailed it round the house
Neil.
Yup - love it, have it in both my shop and home, permanent emule downloading!! Also means I can sit in the square outside my shop, have a coffee, and
still be on-line 
Is this a wireless network running from a base computer which is connected by usb to the broadband company?
Or is there a wireless basestation that is connected to the broadband company ,and all the computers in your house are linked by there own
trans/reciever?
I have a small box that sits under the stairs (where the main telephone line comes into the house) which is the wireless base unit is connected to the
broadband line.
My laptop has a PCMCIA wireless card that allows the computer to talk to the base unit under the stairs.
The main desktop computer has a usb wireless box that also talks to the base unit under the stairs.
This allows the laptop and the desktop to comunicate with each other, so as long as both computers are turned on i can send files at very high speed
between the laptop and the desktop as well as print, scan etc.
All i need now is some way of making the print outs magically fly between the printer upstairs and the front room where i'm sitting...
(p.s i'm not computer minded in the slightest so I could be completely wrong on the principles of broadband, I just followed the instructions on
the box.)
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Originally posted by nick205
Pete,
I hadn't thought of that very valuable benefit of broadbad.
And, where would I go to get such movies...?
right!