What wireless components and/or external accessories are required with a laptop to carry out these specific tasks?
1) Transfer data to/from a Palm PDA that has Bluetooth. Is it better for laptop to have Bluetooth on board or will a Usb dongle do just as well?
2) Send files to print - (printers do not have network cards).
3) Access cable TV/Internet from a Motorola digital modem.
4) Transmit music files to A/V reciever.
5) Transmit photos to a TV.
Any advise you can offer is much appreciated!
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1) Transfer data to/from a Palm PDA that has Bluetooth. Is it better for laptop to have Bluetooth on board or will a Usb dongle do just as well?
--Either way is fine, onboard will mean one less thing to lose/have to plug in/have sticking out and will probably use less power when on battery.
2) Send files to print - (printers do not have network cards).
A long USB cable or wireless print server ($75-125) like this one
3) Access cable TV/Internet from a Motorola digital modem.
Slingbox! Slingbox! SLINGBOX! the greatest invention for digital couch potatoes since the TiVo
4) Transmit music files to A/V reciever.
Something like this guy here would work pretty well.
5) Transmit photos to a TV.
A set-top photo viewer or just hooking your laptop up to the TV via S-video would work. Not sure of any wireless viewers though.
Hope that gives you some ideas, and good luck! -
1. USB dongle or internal, both gets the job done. One is inside your laptop while the other monopolises a usb port. Most decent laptops come with internal bluetooth anyway.
2. USB or the obsolete parallel cable
3, 4 & 5 as stated by otakuoverlord -
Great Info! Much Thanks!!
1) Yes, Bluetooth 'on board'.
2) Printer at home - USB will do it.
Printer at office - it's hooked to a desktop in another room, 15 feet away (only interior walls with drywall), not practical to run a cable. I'm the sole user. Will a low-cost 1-port router/server do the job?
3) Slingbox - Why not?
4) DLink Digital Music Player - first I heard of it! I could have 'loads of fun' with this!! I 'struck gold' on this post!
5) The S-video will be fine.
Incidently, how do you guys 'embed links' in your posts? -
[ url="http://your.url.com" ]this is my linky text[ /url ]
I've added extra spaces between the square brackets so that it shows up correctly -
There was another streaming media player, it was a black tube with a brilliant screen... Roka/Roxa/Roxo/Something... Very nice but I CANNOT find it anywhere to show it to you. Driving me nuts, I can't find it...
EDIT:
HERE IT IS!
I love this one. In person it is stunning, looks fantastic anywhere you put it. -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Some printer have a IR port so you can send your palm files that way. Or do it when docked.
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Blue68f100 - your reference to 'docked' (I grew up on one) put a new spin on the task at hand. Why not reverse the plan and 'bring the printer to the laptop'. The large all-in-one in the other room serves too many purposes where it is; fax reciever, use by transcriptionist, etc. I'll get a single function laser for my office; 'docked' right where the laptop needs it!.
Need Your Advise on Wireless.....
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Rowe, Jan 30, 2007.