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Thanks for the information, I'll see if I can convince him to do so :) Something else I wondered about - I remember reading about plug sockets that use the wiring in the building as if they're cables, allowing you to turn a plug socket into an access point - would those work well or are there...

Unfortunately it's not a fixed position terminal. It's a bar, so it's more useful to have a pick-up terminal to hand to the customers. Ideally he needs something that helps the signal penetrate environments with interference. The situation is that he has the router in a small room surrounded by...

A friend of mine is in the pub business, and currently runs a pub that was built from the ruined remains of an old farm estate from pre WW2. He's got a wireless card terminal installed, but because there's a few walls with piping, metal fixtures, etc between the card terminal and the wireless...

Thanks, that's all I needed to know. Hopefully this laptop will get a new lease on life now!

I've been given a laptop from 2007 that has Windows 7 Home Premium edition installed on it, however is now so laden down with 3rd party software from the owner's previous exploits that it is now suffering. We no longer have the original installation CD that came with it, however I have a .iso of...