Laptop w/ Cingular wireless connection

• Laptop w/ Cingular wireless connection - Gina
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We had Cingular for many years, up until around a 1-1/2 to 2 years ago. I didn't have a cell phone for that period of time. I recently got one again with Cingular about 3 months ago, and boy, do I notice a terrible difference! My husband does as well, and most of the friends & family are on it as well. They also notice a decline in the service--unable to connect, don't get voicemails for a day or two, etc., etc.  Anyone else noticed this?

All the cell phone companies have mobile wireless service.  You buy their PC card and sign up for their service.  The service is about $50 or $60 a month where I live and you have to sign a contract for a year and only one computer can use it at a time because you have to move the card from PC to PC. 

Their are also wireless networks that can run through a home PC and be routed to an unlimited number of computers in the home.  This is usually through a cable company or land line phone company but you send you can't get high-speed internet where you live so that's probably not an option.

As per the discussion below about laptops.  How many of you have wireless internet and how reliable and fast is it? If I were to go up to our mountain (foothills) lake lot and try to transcribe, I fear the mountains would cut out the signal.

Even those of you that transcribe on the deck, if you don't have wireless, don't you have to string a high-speed cable out there or a phone line if you use the phone? Oh, of course I am assuming that some of you work for nationals and need a phone or cable connection.  I suppose some of you work off of tapes or such.

Thanks.

what please is the difference in ability to connect between:

802.11 a/g/n (cannot remember if it was wireless)

802.11 a/b/g wireless

802.11 b/g wireless

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Re speed, I saw somewhere the a/g/n is 5 times faster, true?  or is the speed in the gHz or in the hard drive rpm...????

I would really really appreciate some input, and thanks.

You don't say what kind of router your have but your wireless router DOES NOT need to be connected by ethernet cable to your computer--you only need to connect by cable when you initially install the router software.  Next, if your router has WEP or WAP security enabled, your laptop wireless will not be able to just connect automatically.  Copy your router settings from your main computer (the one you installed the router software to) onto a USB flash drive if you have one and load those settings on your laptop.

The easiest way to set up your network if you have Windows XP is to go to control panel, then go to the Wireless Network Setup Wizard. It will prompt your on how to set up a secure wireless network if your router has it and how to add other computers to your wireless network.  It is very easy if you have a USB flash drive--otherwise you'll have to manually add in the settings. Good luck!!

I am hoping someone can help.  I am trying to connect to a server (new job) and the MTSO I'm working for is away for the evenig.  She told me to connect by  REMOTE DESKTOP to log into their server.   I have no idea how to do this.  Boy, do I feel dumb. 

TIA.

the problem.  This site was taken over several months ago by another organization.  Have you not wondered where all the regulars went?  Great new MT site...

http://www.gomdt.com/gomdtforum/viewforum.php?f=24&st=0&sk=t&sd=d

Does anybody use ATT/SBC DSL?  If so, how is it?

I have Insight (cable), and I have a problem with no internet connections at least once every 2 weeks and thinking about switching.

Thanks!

One of my clients allows me to remotely access their computer to obtain patient lists and transfer files. I have high-speed cable, but there is some delay when I use Word on their computer. I imagine other programs would be a bit slower as well.

If you have Windows XP Professional, you can give this a try yourself by setting up a Remote Desktop Connection. A Google search for this will give you step-by-step instructions.

Losing internet connection happened quite a bit for me.  I kept calling Comcast, they said to reboot.  I had a computer tech out to look at the computer and they deleted a bunch of junk and it ended up my cable modem was bad.  It was 3 years old.  I got a new one and it works great now.

I am soon moving to an area where cable is available.  A friend has advised that I have a backup phone line internet connection.  Any advice?

Thanks for any/all help! 

This is for all of us poor MTs that are still stuck with dial up as our only option.  Satelite is just too darn expensive for what we get paid  and moving is even more expensive.  So....are there any tips or tricks to making our dial up connections any faster so we can download those dictation files faster and not time out anymore? 

Please do not mention an accelerator.  I have that and it is only good for a webpage pop up faster and for opening email.  It has nothing to do with dictation files. 

Is there something that were can do as far as the kind of phone cord we use, the length of it, or something like that? 

What about our modems?  Is there something we can do to our modems to jack up our speeds?

And whats with software like Escription advertising on their website that dial up will work when it does not.  That info has to be to the dictators who have dial up and not to the MTs with dial up.

There has to be hope for us becaue after 10 years of MT work I will be darned if I give up being home with my kids just because of my internet connection speed!!!!

Thanks letting me vent

Very frustated dial up MT