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when bb31 and I took our life in our hands :eek:

we walked out empty handed after seeing the rip off prices :erm:

Any good places recommended to buy wireless stuff for bb31, she is on Pipex and wants to connect her laptop wirelessly

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Any high street shop will be pricey, and if it's cheap it's probably end of line, but then you are paying for the sales staff, brightly lit shop and all that stuff. PCworld will take that to the extreme. Your local computer shop can be a better bet, but they may not have as wide a selection. Of course by buying at a shop in theory you are paying for the advice the staff can give you?

If you know what you want then online shopping will always be cheapest - www.dabs.com, www.simply.co.uk and so on have always been good for me, but check the delivery charges first.

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Dabs.com
Komplett.co.uk
Aria.co.uk


TBH I find PC world CAN be reasonable on its prices, its just you cant guarantee that what you want will be in their reasonable price range. Plus I dont mind paying a penalty for having somehting right away.

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I have used these people before

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/

and not had any probs. I think they are reasonably competetive

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PC World are good :D

.... Only for testing things ;)

Used to buy stuff from there... test it out for a week, send it back, and If I really wanted it.. Order it for a cheaper price online :D

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& of course that's why they are at times costly - they have to absorb these sorts of costs, but if the shops are silly enough to allow such "abuse" then take advantage ;)

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Could be argued that if there price's met online retailers on all accounts, and other high street stores I wouldn't be needing to take the stuff back ;)

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They do have to spend extra money though, on shop staff, premises and associated costs, whereas many online stores are just a warehouse somewhere "oop north"!

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www.scan.co.uk are normally reasonable on price and they do a lot of 'today only' things, which are slightly cheaper still. I haven't used them, but one of my best mates has used them for most of his kit and he recommends them.

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......and they have a lot of useful info on their site, worth a visit!

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www.ebuyer.co.uk if you know what it is you want. Try not to have to return stuff

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is that you or bb31?

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I was waiting for someone to ask :D

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The only reason PC Worlds prices are cheaper online than in the store is because they charge you £5 for delivery.

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I don't think he was referring solely to PC World selling online.

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stands up and says pc world aint that bad , and then :Sprint: for cover with me nomex underwear on :D :D :D :D :D

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Debsy quite clearly has brown hair, as you can see from her avatar. ;)

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That's bb31 and yep Proppin, once again you're bang on, I have "chestnut" hair :D

The stuff that the chap said she "had" to have was about £210 in total, we have seen the equivalent with ebuyer for £160 :shrug:

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Have a look at this :

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=110680

100quid for a router/modem and free lappy card. If BB31 is only surfin and not transferring files round her network then it should be ideal.

EDIT : In fact it looks like its 54Mb/s not 11 as I thought.

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A wireless specialist (plenty of info here too)
http://www.solwise.co.uk/

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too scared to ask yourself ;)

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get her to turn around next time ;) :D

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I do have a cracking pic with her sticking her tongue out but she will kill me if I post it :pp

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Bet she would post one of you though! ;)

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What's a bit of death between friends?

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awwwwwwwwwwwww go on :D :D :D :D :D

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no way !!! dont u dare i will kill u!!

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PCWorld are ok for special offers sometimes, but you have to know exactly what you want & ignore the 'advice' from the staff.

- plus I can confirm that both bb31 and Debsy42 are very 'easy on the eye' ;)

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I can see the scene now, lots of this --------> :ninja: :erm:

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I can say (from experience :D ) that both Debsy and BB31 are lovely ladies...

Pcworld are OK if you want someone quickly, although when I had my brand spanking new 120Gig drive fail on me, it took several goes to persuade them it was faulty goods, and I hadn't blown it up.

As for online places, I have found ebuyer.co.uk, dabs.com and insight (http://uk.insight.com/index.php) to be quite reliable.

I would also add Simply to that list, but when I ordered my Wireless router from them, they delivered it over a week late, and even then it was a fight to either get the goods delivered, or a refund. They have also done this to a friend of mine.

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We want pics! We want pics! Go on......Live fast die young! :D

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pm it to me debsy , i wouldnt let it out into the public domain ;) :D :D :D

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I find that http://www.maplin.co.uk/ is cheap and have a wide selection of products to suit anyones needs

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Well bb31 took the plunge with Ebuyer and they are delivering on Thursday. Wish us luck cos we are both :dunce: but Stuartbe I know where you are (again) :D

Thanks to everyone for the good advice :tu: think we may have some :beer: the night before to get in the spirit of things :drunk:

I'm just going to ring her now :rofl:

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I would have thought you could do a LOT better than £160 for an ADSL Router kit from Ebuyer - unless you're also networking PC's for file transfer, 802.11b is plenty - and actually, at 11 Megabit, it's still as fast as original ethernet, though probably with higher overheads.

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oh no dont tell me!!! this is what im getting anyway:-

Item: Dlink DWL-G650+ 54mbps 802.11g Wireless CardBus Card
Qty: 1
Cost: £25.14

Item: Dlink 54mbps Wireless ADSL Router
Qty: 1
Cost: £79.50

Item: Dlink Wireless Pci Adapter - 54mbit Ieee 802.11g External
Qty: 1
Cost: £27.49

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Not so bad for a router plus 2 - I was thinking of my friend's setup, they only have one machine, a "desktop replacement laptop". And with 2 machines, the 54Mbit 802.11g has a bit more point.

Could have shaved a bit less than a tenner off with the Belkin (Adsl modem with 802.11g router) at £70.74 ... what happened to all the cheap 802.11b ADSL kit?

Belkin 54G Wireless NoteBook Adapter - at £24.62

Dynamode 54 Mbps PCI Wireless Lan - Adapter - at £22.53


All those are including VAT - I think the ones you list are EXCLUDING


Mind you, Belkin don't get a lot of praise for manuals and tech support - I guess you might be doing a bit better with D-Link on that score.



I always search Ebuyer that same way....
Find category, show all products, sort by price, pick the first one that has the features, is in stock, and doesn't get lousy reviews - in some cases, I may go to the website, and check that firmware is available (if appropriate) and download the manual to read first.

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sorry yes my prices quoted were excluding VAT

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well tomorrow is d-day!! any kind souls who may be lurking tomorrow afternoon - please help two thickies

all help gratefully appreciated - we do repay kindness ;)

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Good luck. PM me if there are any problems...

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You're posting the pic of BB Tomorrow afternoon?????!!! :Yes: :drunk: ;)

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BB = broadband then? or BB31 :erm:

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:Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

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Judging from the post below yours, I take it BB31 is not going to be an option???? :)

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being discussed at the mo and the phrase hell freezing over has been stated, along with loss of limbs and no more chicken kebabs :mad:

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Oh dear, that does not sound very good. Could I make things better by sitting idly witnessing tomorrow's events unfold considering I know f**k-all about Wireless? :)

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Course you can sweetie, we need all the encouragement we can get. If you can imagine two of the thickest thickies then thats us :dunce: We need knights in shining armour :D :D :D

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Right. I'll be stripping the rusty lawnmower in my shed first thing in the morning. :erm: :)

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*polishes his lance* :)

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My recent experience - wireless setup for a friend - was a little mixed.

1. I set the router up OFFLINE - and wirelessly! - selected dynamic addressing mode, cloned the addres (spot the mistake), and set about implementing WEP security, and locking the router to only associate with the specified WiFi adapter mac addresses.

Connected up, the router wouldn't pick up an addrerss, DCHP failed - after some fiddling, spotted the mistake, and then SET the mac address of the NTL Ethernet adapter, instead of CLONING the adress of the WiFi.



After that, turned off the SSID broadcast, and it worked, for a while, then failed.

Found a suggestion that you use the adapter utility, and turn off Windows configuration of the wireless network - so updated the adapter drivers and urtility - **UNCERTIFIED DRIVERS** - and then spent the rest of the day trying to fix a hard crashed WinXP! - A "repair install" finally did it - should have gone there first.

DELETED ALL TRACE OF THOSE DAMN DRIVERS!

Installed supplied drivers/utility, and set it up, working fine (with SSID broadcast disabled) until WindowsUpdate (reloading lost updates from repair) - updated the Wifi (Prism) driver and broke the utility.

Switched back to Windows configuration for it, and this time, left SSID broadcast ON - the router is mac address secured anyway, and I'm getting to distrust the combination with SSID broadcast disabled, after readin several similar examples where it wouldn't work properly without broadacst (unless WEP was disabled - which is far less secure).

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*Mounts his trusty steed (:erm: ) and goes off up North..

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Well, guess what......................

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What ????

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I hate supporting and installing broadband, but mainly coz im lazy, and it all seems like far to much effort... also i share a house with cable monkey, so always get him to run my cat5 :monkey:'s rule!

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We are now in business, officially, as consultants for wireless networking.

No real problems, we both have big grins, like this -------> me :D bb31 :D

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yay - nice one Debs, who is getting the kebabs in? ;) :D

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wooooooooooo hoooooooooooo this is just tops :tu: :tu: :tu:

thanks debbie bestest buddy :hugs: :nworthy:

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bb31 can cos I got them in last night :drool:

Thanks Stuartbe for your kind offer and all the other knights, we are quite amazed really how smoothly it went :tu:

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i think the ebuyer advice is worth a view of the tongue out pic!! :D

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:hugs:

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wonders how a wireless network put grins like that on two girls faces ;)

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Right, showing off now

I have now connected my laptop to bb31's network and sufing happily ;)

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Quick - someone park outside the house with there laptop and reconfigure there router :D

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :eek: :eek: :eek:

You'll have to find us first :erm:

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:D

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* turns on patented stuartbe female tracking system * .. .. .. (target locked)

Ooooh... Two young female type females that need some systems support :naughty: I will be there in a minute - Put the kettle on :D

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Luton to Manchester in 1 minute? How are you getting there? By Concorde?

Anyway, I'd be careful. Wifey might be watching..

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Oh Smegs ..... looky here :D

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To celebrate our "success" we are going out for some nosh so we'll meet you all there :tu:

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I am not scared * looks behind him * :erm: :Sprint:

Btw I can get to manchester in 1 minute. I have a special car - It does 0-800 in 1 second. 34l twin turbo.. Powered by NTL BS :D

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Damn,

I always miss the fun. :D

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I rushed back to this thread, and then found I'd remembered the router wrong - still this might be useful for someone else....

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/43113
http://members.cox.net/wrt54g/

The LINKSYS WRT54G can be turned into an effective bandwidth control router, using alternative firmware - the primary firmware is Linux based and fully open-sourced, making this model a joy for firmware modders.

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Finally, photographic evidence ;)

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woooooooo hooooooo got my puter set up with a pringle can attatched. hmmm wheres that up north wireless network?

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Female type females? As opposed to male type females, or female type males?
What circles do you mix in Stuart? :D :angel:

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Modems have to shout reet loud, else it dunt work lad. ;)

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:rofl: :rofl: i did offer him 'special' treament once..... :naughty: :naughty:

female type males......... ;)

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is that you, bb31 & her daughter, all connected at the same time?

The monitor at the back looks big, is it really, or my old eyes?

- so many questions ;) LOL

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Lol Homealone, yep we're all connected at the same time and talking to each other on messenger :erm:

That in the back ground is bb31's telly, we're just watching snooker :rolleyes:

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urmmm your all connected and talking to each other on messenger in the same ROOM!!!! errmmmm something is wrong there, cant quite put my finger on it ;-)

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One word sums it up nicely, "female" nuff said :D

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madness maybe!! :disturbd:

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ill grab your anoraks :D