Hi,

As for the wireless problem, the AP that doesn’t work is b, and the one that works is g. I’ll play with the RTS/CTS settings. BTW these stand for Request To Send / Clear To Send, it’s a flow control mechanism by which the AP tells which wireless clients are allowed to transmit, effectively increasing throughput by minimising collisions.

A couple more impressions, this laptop is silent. And I mean really, even when playing a DVD, it’s way quieter than the Fujitsu, which had a very noisy fan that came on all too often. Even the hard drive is hardly noticeable, whereas the Fujitsu had a very loud clicking to it.

I have tried hibernation, and it’s also really fast, more useable than with older laptops. Since the Fujitsu had this fast suspend/resume, I never really bothered to check out hibernation, but it sure works good on the TR5.

Oh, one last thing, I noticed on the Sony support page there are all the drivers and utilities available for download, so I don’t think it’s necessary to pull them off the recovery media, or will I be missing The Crucial Driver which is nowhere else? Tomorrow I’m going to clean install XP Pro, with repartitioning and all.

Cheers,

Mother

if your computer originally came with home edition, i’d suggest you to take a look at some old posts regarding home—>pro updates

best of luck

[quote author=“Mother”]Hi,

As for the wireless problem, the AP that doesn’t work is b, and the one that works is g. I’ll play with the RTS/CTS settings. BTW these stand for Request To Send / Clear To Send, it’s a flow control mechanism by which the AP tells which wireless clients are allowed to transmit, effectively increasing throughput by minimising collisions.

/quote]

Does the network show up at all or is it simply a connection failure?

You may need updated wireless drivers for the TR from sony support. I know my TR3 did. Depending on how old the access point is, /g was a work in progress and there may be a firmware upgrade. Worth checking out if other attempts fail.

Another reason why your 802.11b may not work is it your wireless network card isn’t allowed to connect to it.  Open “Network Connections” under Control Panel…once open, right click on “Wireless Network Connection” and left click on “Properties”.  Click “Configure”.  A new window will open saying “Intel (R) ...” at the top.  Click on the “Advanced” tab at the top.  Under the Advanced tab you will find four choices…11b/11g mixed environment protection…IBSS Transmit Power…Infrastructure band selection and finally Power Management.  Go a head and click on Infrastructure band selection.  Now look to the right under “Value”.  Click on the draw bar and select “802.11b and 802.11g”.  That’s about it…I hope this works…if so then you might not need to download new drivers and whatnot.

Thanks, CJMPower, for reminding me.

Check your router/access point. My linksys setup allows a /g only option.

[quote author=“dbs”]Thanks, CJMPower, for reminding me.

Check your router/access point. My linksys setup allows a /g only option.

How’s my linksys router workin for ya?  Are you using other SpeedBooster gadgets too maximize bandwidth?

[quote author=“TruthSeeker”][quote author=“dbs”]Thanks, CJMPower, for reminding me.

Check your router/access point. My linksys setup allows a /g only option.

How’s my linksys router workin for ya?  Are you using other SpeedBooster gadgets too maximize bandwidth?

Working like a champ. I’ve got excellent to good signal everywhere in the house and most of the yard. I picked up a DSL/POTS line splitter and plan on running a dedicated line to a high central location. It’s working so well that I haven’t gotten around to doing it.

The TR3, of course is only /g, but I have two other machines on the network with speedbooster… to be honest I set them up and didn’t pay any attention.

Are you pretty much put back together from the storm?