SD

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TP

The Publisher
Many thanks. SD

seymour c / kayak
changing screensaver settings seams to have worked.
thank you jw9.

TP, staying wireless for now is one option to look at.
It also appears to be faster than the ethernet access, so may just stay
wireless, will need to purchase another pci card but at 20 not a vast expence.

CB,

I bought one of these jobbies.

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=3020

These guys are out of stock, but they are available somewhere as they did find one for me.

It is sensitive and works through the USB. I use it to piggyback on someone else's WiFi in my photographic studio and I've used it in the office when our broadband died and I had to rely on BT Openzone.

Probably overkill for you, but thought it was worth a mention.

TP

Received my 3G data card today,installed it etc,outlook express is on the laptop but has not been setup,do i use OE for emails on this card or has it got its own email thinghy,i cant seem to see it in the book ????If i want to down load my emails from yahoo i have to log onto www and that is more expensive than normal email,any help please.

Rick...

MB,

I'd guess you use whatever mail sender/receiver you want, but configure it for the 3G settings the card and provider expect.

With my O2 GPRS I use both Virtual Access and nPOP which are simply mail progs. But each is set to relate to the O2 needs.

TP

Mega Bucks:

I am an occasional user of a Voda 3G card. It works just fine, although 3G coverage is a bit patchy. However, it falls back to good 'ole clockwork GPRS quite seamlessly.

My mail comes from my company POP3 account and I use Eudora. I don't have to change a thing other than fire up the card and it all happens automagically.

I'm still using the free time I got with the card, so I haven't investigated the tariffs. However, I think if you pay 3/month, it reduces the "Pay-as-you-use" charges quite a bit.

MM

[Edited to correct a spelling error before Kayak spots it :)]

Derek,thank you,as i have not setup OE on the laptop,is it possible to duplicate the pop3 from my website on my main pc onto the laptop if that makes sense,so that i dont miss emails from home ???

Rick...

Rick,

Not absolutely sure what you mean, but there's nothing to prevent you accessing the same POP3 server from two different computers.

As MM says you can POP from different computers but your messages will end up being downloaded to the computer you're on at the time. If you don't like that you can set the option on one of the computers to read the message but not delete it from the POP3 server so that it will still be accessible from the other computer.

MM,thats what i was trying to ask,thanks,will try and install the pop3 from the server tomorrow.

Rick....

Alex,thanks.

MB,

If you are not already committed to OE do take a look at Virtual Access and nPOP.

You may find they fit your needs better. Both can be set to read without deleting. nPOP will also simply read the headers and a chosen number of lines of text.

TP

For the second time this week, I'm downloading and installing Windows Updates.

This time there are 8 of them and which were apparently released only yesterday.

I have got a wireless card in my new laptop and am not wireless anywhere else yet. I`m also a complete ignoramous re the new technology. I have this flashing mushroom thing on the lower toolbar saying that there is a wireless connection available and it has a green tick. Does this mean that if I was a `bad` girl I could connect to it. I am not going to but I am curious

Snip,

Not a bad girl at all.

If the person sending out the message that he/she has broadband available you are doing him/her a favour in keeping it running. These signals can get clogged up in the ADSL converters and, if not used regularly, can require expensive cleanouts.

If you eventually found out who it was you could do them a big favour warning them if the feed had died - and they would never have known until they wanted to use it an emergency.

Be kind to your neighbours.

TP

LOL TP does that mean that I could see into their pc if I were a hacker?

I don't think so, though others may challenge that.

I have an ADSL modem that is a network router and a WiFi transmitter. It stays on the whole time whereas my laptop and PDA are naturally off most of the time. So clearly then nobody can see into anything.

Let's see what the others say. When I think of the convoluted software that we have in our office so that our IT chappie can dial in from his home - which is all password protected - I cannot see the need for it if he could just hack into our internet router.

I have my WiFi password protected so that nobody can piggy back on to my broadband line and use up my montly data allowance.

TP

TP

The nice thing about the WiFi is being able to check for messages and use my Stock Manager on the PDA - thus avoiding the interminal wait while XP fires up on the laptop.

TP