yeah I miss my live in geek. Luckily I have a close-friend-geek who works for home cooking so I really shouldn't complain.

wow. I didn't realize how fast the wi-fi connection on the iphone was until I logged on last night @ ND's place. It proves how craptastic our new wi-fi routers are at work.

So, not being a network/IT guy, what are some settings I should look for that would slow down a wx connection? I guess a model # would help. Sorry, don't have that at home.

Sorry if this is too obvious, but does your work router have only the slower '802.11b' standard? That's the only thing I can think of. Or maybe there's interference or the work router has too many clients?

OK, I guess that's three things.

Have people seen this laptop? [link]

Their Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes.

Asus has just announced their feature-rich, top-of-the line model, the Eee PC 4G, which is now available for sale here in the United States.

Eee stand for “easy to lean, easy to work and easy to play.” It’s a small, ultralight laptop with a 7-inch color screen, an Intel processor (the OLPC has an AMD chip) and a battery which provides up to 3 hours of use before needing recharging. Eee weighs less than two pounds.

There is no hard drive inside. The U.S. version comes with 4GB of built-in flash memory to both run the computer (as RAM) and provide approximately 1.4GB of storage space for files, music and pictures. There is also a memory card slot so you can add as much as 32GB of extra storage, which currently costs more than $400.

Connection to the Internet is via the Ethernet port or the built-in Wi-Fi circuitry. There’s a hole for a modem connection but no modem built inside.

Want.

Another Eee PC article.

Wanting the Eee.

o_a, man, I WORK at the IEEE and our wi-fi is slow. I don't know what to tell you.

LOL, ZenKitty, you crack me up. You'd think those folks would know! Tommy, yes, it has B & G but not N (are those the right letters? Sorry, it's day off). I remember clicking it going "well YA I want the faster speed". I also remember a TON of layers. For the most part, the IT folks set everything to "default"... or rather, just plugged it in and walked away. I'm going to try repositioning the antennae a bit, see if that helps. Gotta love RF.

G should be decently fast, but the other big limiting factors are how much bandwidth you've got and how many machines are trying to share it. No amount of settings-tweaking is going to change either of those if your employers are cheap bastards who think a whole company is going to run off the equivalent of a basic-level home broadband account.

Also, if it's a g-network but someone is accessing it at 'b' speeds, the whole wireless network will be slowed down.

technically its just for the visiting designers, so like 10 people or so? Wow, very interesting Tommy about the downshift to B if anyone else is at B. Dude, that's like USB chain. How mean would it be to bump it to G only? Screw those old laptop people! ;)