[CGUYS] Wireless Expander

2009-10-04 Thread Frank Sestir
I have a friend using a Mac Power Book computer. They purchased a Linksys Wireless G Expander. Any suggestions on how to connect this to make it work with their wireless router. They were told by the store they purchased it from that all they had to do was to plug it in and it would work.

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
Eric S. Sande escribió: Besides when you order from China, you have to figure out if it's the real thing, No you don't. It's guaranteed to be junk, even if it's designed and supervised by European engineers. I'm guessing that won't be a popular statement. But I KNOW that Americans can

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 4, 2009, at 11:04 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: We need more manufacturing here. Americans are very good conscientious workers. It is not the workers that are the problem, it is the managers. It is the managers who decide that they can fatten their bonuses by making crappy products. They

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-04 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
High end electronics are not made in the USA they are more appropriately assembled in the US. Putting together a flat screen TV? Flat Screens are all made in the east. (Orient) Remember Curtis Mathis? All they did was assemble electronics from parts made by other manufacturers. Most of

[CGUYS] Crazy Adoption Rate for Snow Leopard

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are now running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first updates to X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior. The one about fonts is a show stopper for me. Maybe it is the $25 price that got

[CGUYS] Google Chrome add-in for IE: Speed demon or big, fat security hole?

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:24 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: My guess is part of the speed up is them by passing IE's security filters. Bad guess. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/22/2138201/Google-Brings-Chrome-Renderer-Speedy-Javascript-To-IE Try this... http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ Not

[CGUYS] Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon  CTO

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today. In comments made to press at the 2009 Fiber to the Home

[CGUYS] Wireless Expander

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Frank Sestir wrote: I have a friend using a Mac Power Book computer. They purchased a Linksys Wireless G Expander. Any suggestions on how to connect this to make it work with their wireless router. They were told by the store they purchased it from that all

[CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Robert Carroll wrote: Finding web stores sellers from other countries on Google search in the U.S. produces unsatisfactory results for me. Specifying the Google search domain from other countries has proved for me to produce a limited number of links. Easy.

[CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Eric S. Sande wrote: I'm guessing that won't be a popular statement. But I KNOW that Americans can do it better. Our audio products are better, our bicycle products are better. The prices of high-end audio equipment are particularly hard to defend. It is a

[CGUYS] Google Chrome add-in for IE: Speed demon or big, fat security hole?

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:24 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: My guess is part of the speed up is them by passing IE's security filters. Microsoft says hey, that thing just give malware more attach points and makes our browser less secure -- which cause a lot of chuckling around the blogosphere.

[CGUYS] Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO

2009-10-04 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Art Clemons wrote: I also wonder whether someone with Fios for example is really costing more if that individual downloads only three emails a day and surfs once a week to the Washington Post versus someone who downloads movies from Netflix or some similar entity.

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless Expander

2009-10-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Frank Sestir fses...@verizon.net wrote: I have a friend using a Mac Power Book computer. They purchased a Linksys Wireless G Expander. Any suggestions on how to connect this to make it work with their wireless router. They were told by the store they

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless Expander

2009-10-04 Thread Frank Sestir
Thanks for your help. I was contacted by email, obviously I couldn't read the f 'in manual Tom. But I did get online to linksys and read their instructions. They were very similar to your responses. I'll give them a try when I go to set it up (and I WILL read the manual, ty.) Reading

[CGUYS] Recommendations on Wifi N router?

2009-10-04 Thread db
Was thinking of getting an inexpensive N wifi router for use with PCs. for use in an apt. Was looking at D-Link, Rosewill and Trendnet on NewEgg in the $25 to $35 range. Anybody have any particular recommendations? db