Greetings and adsl connection problems with my laptop
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Greetings from a new expat to Zhuhai (I'm nine days old.)
I'm from Austin, Texas and plan on being here for at least a year teaching English. So far things have been going pretty well. The city is as beautiful as advertised.
I would like some help or suggestions regarding my adsl. I have an Everex Stepnote laptop with about 500 meg ram which has an Intel Celeron processor. The computer has been working great for about a year. I've been able to connect to cable and wireless networks in a variety of settings.
When I connect to the adsl network here my computer freezes. I have to do a hard shutdown to get it unfrozen. I have tried many, many things on my computer to no avail. China Telecom came for a second visit and after switching out the modem suggested the problem was with my computer.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty patient about the whole thing. I have access to the internet at work so I can stay in touch but....it would be nice to have the internet at home too.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Tom
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sounds like an incompatible
sounds like an incompatible driver issue. I'd shift the adsl modem off the computer and put a router in between. The router can be set up to dial your ADSL connection and then you just connect your laptop to the router network.
TPLink is fine and easy enough to have set up, for wireless try the TL-WR340G wireless router. I used this quite successfully in one school's classroom environment for over a year.
However, I recommend, if you're used to high quality wireless (and want to access setup documentation in English), go the extra mile and pick up a DPR-1260 wireless Router.
Both of the above have a web-based interface for setting up the router, built in DHCP server and security services. You can get either of these in Wanzai Sha, or in the Gongbei Computer Market.
If wireless in home is not for you, then there are a ton of cheap wired router available, make sure you get a router and not a switch.
regards,
T. Tempest. DCA
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Thank you. I live in a very
Thank you. I live in a very small efficiency so the wireless router may not make sense. I think I'll look into the wired router. Adventure!!!!
Tom