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My Components Dell Inspiron E1705
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5300 (2MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium edit
LCD PANEL 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ edit
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability edit
VIDEO CARD 256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory edit
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™HD Software Edition edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
WIRELESS CARDS Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/g edit
My Accessories
PRINTER Dell AIO 926 – Includes Media Card Reader edit
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Get all this with the printer for about 00

Any recommendations on upgrades?
Is it a good screen?

I know that most all laptops today come with wireless cards built in, but I was wandering if there is any one card that was better than most? I’m buying a laptop for Christmas for someone who doesn’t have internet service, so they’ll need a good wireless card to be able to connect to a local WiFi connection. Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

i have 2 wireless cards installed on my computer.
i have both of them connected to my router which one of them dont connect to my internet correctly.
one has the proper connection to the router like it should but the other will connect like it should but it will not receive an internet connection(wont receive packets like it should)
i have tried to bridge my connections but that didnt help at all any help will be helpful thanks in advanced

I understand that I can get wireless internet connection if my laptop has a built-in wireless card for as long as I’m in a "hotspot" where I get connection from radio waves. How true is that? I am planning to get a laptop, but I’m not sure if where we live now is actually a "hotspot" or not where I could use it for regular web surfing? We do have broadband internet for our desktop now, but I don’t want to have a wireless router connected to that as it is connected to my work/company’s computer, I trust wired network better for that. If there is a DSL or Cable internet provider in our area, will that give a big possibility that I will be able to get good signal for the laptop‘s wireless internet connection? Where do built-in wireless cards get their signals anyway? Is it possible that I will be getting a signal from other people’s wireless connection? Can anyone explain this to me? I’m all confused. Thanks a lot!

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop and I am getting to the point where I’m needing to fly with and go to places with my laptop. I have ATT DSL at home. They just sent me a modem (I have one already) and two wireless cards, but they look like paper cards. I don’t really know how exactly wireless internet works. Do I need another equipment? Please help!

I have a wireless network using a Linksys WRT54GS router for 2 mac’s and 2 PC’s. My Mac’s have N wireless cards and my PC’s have G cards, and everything has been running fine as far as speed goes. I purchased Apple’s Time Capsule because I loved the idea of wirelessly backing up all of my mac’s. The Time Capsule is a wireless N router in addition to a storage device. Unfortunately, my internet speed has not been good since switching to the Time Capsule. I added the Linksys back to the network and connected the TC to the linksys router in bridged mode, and changed the TC setting to N only at 5ghz. This fixed the speed problem. I have the Mac’s connected to the TC network and the PC’s to the linksys network because they don’t have N capabilities. My question is, how do I print? I have the printer connected to the TC via usb, and the PC’s are not able to print because they are on the wrong network. What am I doing wrong?

one Internal one use wireless nic. one wireless router from cisco.
i select both wireless cards and choose bridge connections. the resulting bridge gets an error that says there is an ip conflict. can i not connect bridge them to the same AP? my end result is trying Double my speed over the wireless.