Posts by cjazz

GuruX If battery life is it, than I can't say Sager 8890. Portability. Yes it is heavy. For the photo and video editing I do it was a good solution for me with the big screen and raw power. Most of the time I'm where I can plug in....

I use my Sager 8890 with 1GB RAM, 60GB 7200rpm HD, and P4 3.2GHz. It's a great for editing. I have two 160GB 7200rpm external drives connected through firewire. One is a Seagate with both firewire and usb2.0, I can't recommend it...

The setting of the NIC speed is an important one. I didn't find because it was as obvious as the other settings. The card worked fine. I did install the updated driver from Linksys and disable the Windows Management of Wireless...

Thanks Jebus, it worked. Instead of auto-negotiate I set it to 10Mbps full duplex. That did the trick. I guess it was too much for my router to handle. Don't know why, but it works now.

I completely spaced (it was really late) on leaving my MAC there, DUH. Thanks for the save myrkat. I don't think the ip in this case is critical because I can always change that. Besides anyone who looks up linksys documentation on...

Ok, I removed the wireless adapter, pluged in the ethernet cable and restarted the system, here's what I get: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : CZWorkcomp Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . ....

Ok, so I ran ipconfig through both computers. Here are the results First, my desktop which has no problems: Windows 98 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : C DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 24.93.1.119 ...

Ok I just got my 8890 with XP Pro. Then I tried to hook it up to my home network. I'm coming from 98SE so XP is a bit fuzzy to me, but I'm getting the hang of it. Anyways here's what's good: I can connect to the internet by...

I just ordered a 8890. It's going to be delieverd next week. So it will take me a couple of weeks to see how it meets my needs (i'm a photojournalist). I chose the 8890 for a few reasons. One, i'm not a big fan of macs. Two, I...