USB ethernet adapter is your only way forward.
Like this:
https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Foldable-Gigabit-Ethernet-Compatible/dp/B00YUU3KC6
Like this:
https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Foldable-Gigabit-Ethernet-Compatible/dp/B00YUU3KC6
Yes ... it actually has changed the quality of my life. In these covid lockdown times, It's enabled me to work at home in comparatively spacious, quiet surroundings rather than going into the school board office ... setting up in a small spartan cubical they provide to me and a whole bunch of other teachers and trying to on-line teach from there ... not pleasant at all. The past few days working at home here has been sooooooooooo much better. So much so that even when this lockdown ends ... I might volunteer to stay on with on-line teaching - I expect that when it ends, they'll be a bunch of students/parents who will be very reluctant to return to classrooms. The board will have to accommadate them somehow ... maybe ...who knows? ... strange times we're living in ... adapt or perish lol.100mbit is still better than wifi at least
Yes, I'm well used to tranfering movies back and forth via usb and really, it's not all that bad ... at least I can live with it. I tend to use external drives rather than sticks but the same idea. Usb 3 helps with that.Indeed HP Pavilion g6-2249wm? Sigh. No, then you are stuck in 100 Mbps. Sticknet (moving around files on USB 3.0 stick) will be faster large file moving option then.
Funny, but this recalled in memory a thing of past. In my old workplace circa 1995 there was a machine with 486 DX-40 CPU and very slow Maxtor IDE HDD. It was literally 3-4 times faster to work with files shared in network (10 Mbps Coaxial Ethernet) than put them on HDD and work locally.
No, that is quite true.Maybe he's kidding me but he swears it's true.
So much for my dreams of Plex and a NAS system. I'm a little disappointed but I'll live. Do you think those 'external usb to rj-45 gigabit ethernet adapter ' things would work? Something like this (maybe I should start a new post to see if anyone has had success with them):Then 100mbps is all you will ever get with that.
Yes, or the other one I linked above.So much for my dreams of Plex and a NAS system. I'm a little disappointed but I'll live. Do you think those 'external usb to rj-45 gigabit ethernet adapter ' things would work? Something like this (maybe I should start a new post to see if anyone has had success with them):
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Ethernet-Adapter-Supporting/dp/B00BBD7NFU/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=external+usb+to+rj-45+gigabit+ethernet+adapter&qid=1611374438&sr=8-7
Heh, my Dad has stories of programming a computer by punching holes in a card then waiting a day for it to run, finding it didn't work, and punching more holes. He is old though lolYes, I'm well used to tranfering movies back and forth via usb and really, it's not all that bad ... at least I can live with it. I tend to use external drives rather than sticks but the same idea. Usb 3 helps with that.
Funny what you say about the ide drives. How slow were they? My Dad tells me stories about using PCs back when they didn't even have hds. They would boot (MS DOS maybe) from these funny things called floppy disks (he still has some ... about five inches in diameter and yes they are very floppy). Typically a pc would have 2 floopy drives ... you'd put your boot disk in one and save your work, data to the other. I guess they held less than a Mb in storage! If a machine, had a hard drive it was considered very cutting edge lol. Maybe he's kidding me but he swears it's true. Of course, he also claims he used to walk 3 miles to school in blinding snowstorms every day ... I'm not buying that one! lol
Your dad told a truth. Till early nineties HDD-s was exclusive and expensive. Like 300$ (yes, before inflation in 2000-ies) for 250 MB IDE/ATA hard drive at 1993. Earlier ones was even more expensive. Floppies was also my school time and first work years thing. Worked with them both - 5.25" and 3.5" flavours. 3.5" ones had larger capacity and better protection, so in some places they was used even a decade ago. I often hated them, because as any magnetic media they had a habit to correctly read only on device where they was written. Taking files on them somewhere only to discover them in non-readable condition at destination was normal thing. It was a nightmare in comparing with negligible USB stick glitches at today. Luckily I have nothing to do with them anymore so good riddance. Though because floppies had very wide usage base in specialized hardware worldwide, government and military organizations worldwide ditched them only recently. Some old industrial equipment like huge industrial CNCs still use them even at today.Funny what you say about the ide drives. How slow were they? My Dad tells me stories about using PCs back when they didn't even have hds. They would boot (MS DOS maybe) from these funny things called floppy disks (he still has some ... about five inches in diameter and yes they are very floppy). Typically a pc would have 2 floopy drives ... you'd put your boot disk in one and save your work, data to the other. I guess they held less than a Mb in storage! If a machine, had a hard drive it was considered very cutting edge lol. Maybe he's kidding me but he swears it's true. Of course, he also claims he used to walk 3 miles to school in blinding snowstorms every day ... I'm not buying that one! lol
Oh ... somehow I missed that post ... I see it now. I'll check it out. TyYes, or the other one I linked above.
Funny to think about that now ... We've come a long way with storage and tranfer rates haven't we? Here I am fussing and fretting because I can't get gig speed to access my 14 TB external HD so I can stream 4k movie rips ... kinda puts it in perspective. I'm just thinking though, even with that old technology ... they were able to put folks on the moon and bring them back safe ... amazing really! Well ... unless you believe the conspiracy theories saying it was all a hoax lol.You can try USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapter, yes. It indeed will be faster than internal 100 Mbps adapter.
Your dad told a truth. Till early nineties HDD-s was exclusive and expensive. Like 300$ (yes, before inflation in 2000-ies) for 250 MB IDE/ATA hard drive at 1993. Earlier ones was even more expensive. Floppies was also my school time and first work years thing. Worked with them both - 5.25" and 3.5" flavours. 3.5" ones had larger capacity and better protection, so in some places they was used even a decade ago. I often hated them, because as any magnetic media they had a habit to correctly read only on device where they was written. Taking files on them somewhere only to discover them in non-readable condition at destination was normal thing. It was a nightmare in comparing with negligible USB stick glitches at today. Luckily I have nothing to do with them anymore so good riddance. Though because floppies had very wide usage base in specialized hardware worldwide, government and military organizations worldwide ditched them only recently. Some old industrial equipment like huge industrial CNCs still use them even at today.
That Maxtor HDD I mentioned was kinda exclusion. I don't know are it came from bad batch or simply was bad model. Even playing DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D from shared network drive was faster than from that HDD. Usual IO and data transfer in consumer IDE/ATA hard drives circa mid-nineties was 2-3 times faster than 10 Mbps network data transfer. It actually was one of IDE HDD selling point at that days - plus uniform interface for ALL HDDs at last.
My current GPU has more memory space (8GB) than my first 10 PCs had hard drive space, combined.Funny to think about that now ... We've come a long way with storage and tranfer rates haven't we? Here I am fussing and fretting because I can't get gig speed to access my 14 TB external HD so I can stream 4k movie rips ... kinda puts it in perspective. I'm just thinking though, even with that old technology ... they were able to put folks on the moon and bring them back safe ... amazing really! Well ... unless you believe the conspiracy theories saying it was all a hoax lol.
Wow ... making holes in a card lol.Heh, my Dad has stories of programming a computer by punching holes in a card then waiting a day for it to run, finding it didn't work, and punching more holes. He is old though lol
I bet it was bad. Luckily we haven't had a conscripted war here in the UK for a good long while.Wow ... making holes in a card lol.
My Dad is getting up there in years too. He's still sharp but a lot quieter then he used to be. I miss his stories and perspective on things. I asked him about it a while back and he simply said "Its not that I don't care, I've just kinda run out of things to say".
One thing he would never, ever talk about was ... Vietnam. He'd only say "2 places you never want to be are ... in a war, or in a prison." He still gets real ansy on the rare occasions that helicopters fly over and he hears them way (like 30 seconds) before I do ... I like to think my hearing is pretty good. I have no idea what happened over there but it must have been bad ... like REAL BAD.
I'm guessing that the war and prison statement meant he was in both at the same time. Perhaps being held at a non-designated POW spot. Where, being fired on by 'friendly fire' was a distinct and maybe even frequent occurance. Helicopters ... Agent Orange ... Napalm. Gunfire was no issue whatsoever ... we'd often go duck hunting ... and dawn on opening day on a good duck lake is an absolute battlezone of gun fire. No problem at all. Get that distictive woop woop sound of a chopper in the air though and ... he'd be nervous as all git out and looking for cover ... like I said ... he'd hear the chopper way before I would.I bet it was bad. Luckily we haven't had a conscripted war here in the UK for a good long while.
Back in the 80s, when I was going through technical training for my Air Force stint, our first course was Assembly language and yes, we actually used punch cards for the class. Ask your Dad how many "floor sorts" he did.Heh, my Dad has stories of programming a computer by punching holes in a card then waiting a day for it to run, finding it didn't work, and punching more holes. He is old though lol
In my USAF crosstraining into computers (moving from aircraft) in the mid 90's, one of the first things we wrote in assembly was a roulette wheel simulator.Back in the 80s, when I was going through technical training for my Air Force stint, our first course was Assembly language and yes, we actually used punch cards for the class. Ask your Dad how many "floor sorts" he did.
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Yes, I'm been wondering about the 'upper limit of these old laptops thing. I've been thinking it's either that or .... maybe those usb to Lan thingies .... despite calling themselves Gig, aren't quite up to full spec. Wherever this issue is ... I'm very happy with the results and definitely consider it to have been a worthwhile, successful project! It's easily good enough for me to work towards some sort of (probably PLEX server based) NAS storage system. That'll be months down the road but I feel like I now have the infrastructure in place to pull it off. In the meantime, to be able to quickly and easily transfer large movie files (without having to be plugging and unplugging usb external drives) is a HUGE bonus. My movie count is getting close to 1500 so ... I've got some tranferring to do lol. TY so much.Seems you now see the upper limit of data transfer in your laptop. It is a decade old model, I would stop bother about it anymore. Now you can copy files over network faster - we can consider it as success.
Thinking of the disk/file system. That's eactly why I transferred a large movie to my c: drive SSD and then tranferred from this C: drive to the C: drive (also an SSD) of the receiving laptop. This resulted in virtually identical performance in terms of transfer rate compared to when I did D: drive to D: drive transfer. I don't know the exact specs of the SSDs (there're not top of the line EVOs) but ... they're plenty quick compared to the D: drive HDs!It is likely the disk/file system. Look up the drive specs and how fast they can read and write. This is why using SSD rather than hard drives has become a standard.
To check just network performance use a program like IPERF on both ends. It should give you over 900mbps in most cases.
The term you're seeking is LAN.On the other hand, if I want to talk about using the router to connect 2 computers together so they can share files etc. … how do I refer to this … would this be a ‘INTRAnet connection’? or if I said ‘home network’ would that be what I’m talking about? … or is there a better word?
not really, connecting outside is called WAN connection (wide area connection)When talking about communicating with the outside world with a modem, router etc. … we use the term ‘INTERnet connection’ … is that correct?
that would be called LAN (local area network)On the other hand, if I want to talk about using the router to connect 2 computers together so they can share files etc. … how do I refer to this … would this be a ‘INTRAnet connection’? or if I said ‘home network’ would that be what I’m talking about? … or is there a better word?
connecting to router/modem is either with wired connection or wireless, doesnt really matter which terms u use if other recognize wires from air from itI understand my computers can ‘talk’ to the router in 2 ways. Until recently, I’ve been only doing it via Wifi so that seems clear. Recently, I‘ve switched over to the ‘hard wired’ way, the ports seem to be referred to as LAN ports … so if I say I have a LAN connection … does that tell everyone I’m using the hard-wired way of connecting or … is there a better term to use?
lan doesnt need wifi passwordWhether connected by wifi or LAN … is the password to the network the same? It seems like it is since it didn’t ask me for a new password when I switched over to LAN. Is this something that can likely be changed in the router settings? Allowing me to give someone the wifi password without allowing them LAN access (or vice versa I suppose)?
u can open router sertting by typing its ip adress in web browser to check its wifi settings if its enabled, wifi name/passwords/connected clientsWhen you have a secondary router hooked up ... is there a simple way to verify that it's actually sending out a wifi signal?