Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Striking down a bottleneck on the Laptop

I love 'new' toys. :)

A problem I have with the laptop (apart from the stupid laptop keyboard, stupid touchpad - I hate touch pads coz my thumbs keep grazing them when I type at my 82WPM speed, stupidly low amount of RAM, and stupidly little USB ports) is with the slow 802.11b WiFi. Meh. 11Mbits just doesn't cut it when I wanna browse and stream my big FLAC files all over WiFi. :\

The current first gen Intel Centrino dinky PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter that is on my laptop is about to be replaced! I ran across an Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG 3B Mini PCI Adapter that will give me a more modern 802.11g 54Mbits of WiFi wholesome goodness. Best of all,it was $12 on fleabay and it should arrive this week or next. GOD SPEED!

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