Thanks to all for the replies. Thanks Vince for confirming my own opinion that the USB WIFI system is a bit iffy. It was all that I could get locally so now I will look on the web to try to get one here in France.
Roger, thanks for your input but I am afraid that it does appear to be flawed in my own experience. My old ADSL modem worked just fine plugged into an extension cable that was in turn plugged into the telephone point on the other side of the office.
When this new style of modem/router arrived the book specifically instructed that it must not be run from a telephone extension. However, I did try it and used a cable connection (tried both USB and ethernet) and could not get a connection to the internet or even a phone line. The engineer had to come to install it in the end and he had to open the box that feeds the telephone line into the house and fiddle with it.
That would seem to be because the telephone cables in this part of rural France are in very poor condition The max connection that I can get here is 512kbps. New cables are supposed to be ongoing work in this area but work stopped months ago and all we have now are holes in the road and cable ends that lead nowhere.
In any case it made sense to have the modem installed in the living room as that is where the phone is and the phone needs to be plugged directly into the modem to give me free calls. In addition as I now have a laptop I wanted to be able to link the 2 on a wireless network.
So, I will see what slots are available on the mobo and take it from there.
Thanks again to everyone for the advice.
Chris
--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "RogerX19" <helpmeroger@...> wrote:
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> Here's an easy solution:
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> The person who told you that the router had to be on the "main line" and not an "extension" is wrong.
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> All phone lines in your house are the same, there is no physical difference between the original one that the phone company installed, and any that were added later.
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> If you have a phone line in the room where your computer is, move the router there. Then plug your computer into the router via a wire, not WiFi.
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> Be aware that the installer may have placed line filters on the phone lines in your house except for the one where the router is plugged in. This is normal. Just be sure to unplug the line filter from the jack that you want to plug the router into.
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> The line filter is just for the jacks that have phones on them. It filters out the modem noise so that you don't hear it when using the phone.
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> rogerX
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> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "chris259s" <C259s@> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > My desktop computer does not have internal WIFI. So, when my new router/modem with WIFI was installed it had to be in the room next door so that it was installed into the primary telephone point and not an extension.
> >
> > So, I had to buy a USB WIFI stick. Distance is not a problem as the computer is literally on the other side of the wall from the modem but I frequently get the message that a USB device has stopped working. This always refers to the USB WIFI. Rebooting cures the problem. I have tried different USB sockets with no change.
> >
> > This never happens with my laptop which has integral WIFI. So, I am assuming that it is a known problem with USB WIFI.
> >
> > Is there a solution? My computer is HP Compaq Pressario new last August with Windows 7. Would it be possible to install an internal WIFI and would this be likely to solve the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
>
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