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It would be cheaper and easier, but I don't want to use a dongle. No matter how small they are, they still use up a USB, and there's always the chance that i;; forget to unplug it and break it off or break the usb port loose from the MB. The machine I want to install it in had the option for it from the factory, but mine doesnt have the option. Internal is just so much cooler.

I've been looking all over the place for a 2.1 Bluetooth module made by Azurewave, the BT-253. I've found similar ones on ebay and a couple other places, but not the exact one that I need. I did find the exact one that I need, but it's from the European Asus store website, and I'm not going to pay shipping to me all the way from where ever the warehouse is in Europe, for a 20 dollar part. If anyone knows where this can be found inside the United States or even Canada or Mexico, that would be great if you could share. I would gladly take a used one out of a cannibalized laptop. They come installed in some Asus machines, just in case anyone has a dead Asus laptop. I also need the 8 pin cable that goes with it.

Eek. Didn't know that the XP compatibility mode was just a VM running XP. That raises a lot of questions. I've never used VM's extensively, hopefully I won't need to...

That looks like a very cool utility, however, the website says that it doesn't play nice with 64 bit windows, which is what I use on my laptop. I have 32 windows on my desktop, but it's not quite in range of all of the networks. It doesn't say anything about the compatibility of Windows 7 (laptop), but I assume that if it doesnt work well with vista 64 bit, that it probably won't work well with 64 bit Win7. I haven't tried out the cool XP compatibility mode in 7 yet, maybe now i s a good time because I really want to try this tool out. Any thoughts?

I think I read somewhere about that overlapping issue. I wanted to choose 11, but unfortunately it was already being used by someone who is pretty close, but now it's looking like 11 is still the best bet.

Cool. Do you know of the best and or easiest way to change it permanently so that the (awful) Linksys software won't try to change it back? I don't evne know if that is a possibility or not, but as a general rule, I don't trust anything made by Cisco-Linksys to do what it's supposed to do and not do what it's not supposed to do. Like I said, i'm pretty new to network tweaking, so it would help a lot to have instructions from someone who already knows rather than to figure it out myself, even though it would probably be very easy. I fond the linksys software to be very flaky in assuming that I want it to do certain things for me when I actually don't want it to do anything.

I personally find it an exciting prospect to order a $99 (netbook?) and to not know exactly which chipset, screen, keyboard, etc, that I am going to get. It would be sort of like those "stand-behind-a-piece-of-cardboard-with-a-fishing-pole-and-see-what-someone-puts-on-it-on-the-other-side" games that they have on school fairs and church games and whatnot. A grab bag sort of thing if you will. You might end up with something really fun and interesting. Then again, you might spend 99 dollars on something you can't use for much of anything.

So, I am in range of something like 20 wifi networks at different places in my house, and I'm still using the default router channel because I honestly don't know any better. I believe I actually am getting some signal interference from some neighbors signals, but I can't be sure, and it's not big deal anyway. I have only recently become very interested in network structure, architecture, protocol, etc., and so I don't really know which frequency to pick. Here is the text . Maybe some one knows which frequency I should choose (and maybe the quick and easy way to choose it) Any other cool information, maybe a little knowledge on why I should pick a certain frequency, or any other ways this text file might be useful for my network security would be good too. I tried to upload as a text file but I wasn't allowed to do that. Thanks! SSID : (This is my network) Last Signal : 23% Average Signal : 18% Detection Counter : 9 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:13 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:49 PM MAC Address : 00-00-00-00-00-00 RSSI : -86 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco-Linksys, LLC Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : NETGEAR Last Signal : 21% Average Signal : 32% Detection Counter : 27 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:48 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:33 PM MAC Address : 00-1b-2f-e5-dc-d2 RSSI : -87 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.412 Channel Number : 1 Company Name : NETGEAR Inc. Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : (Mine again, not sure why its here twice) Last Signal : 100% Average Signal : 100% Detection Counter : 9 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:48 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:57 PM MAC Address : RSSI : Channel Frequency (GHz): Channel Number : Company Name : Maximum Speed : 0 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : RANDY Last Signal : 23% Average Signal : 23% Detection Counter : 17 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:49 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:24 PM MAC Address : 00-1e-2a-4f-ad-34 RSSI : -86 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Netgear Inc. Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Belkin_N1_Wireless_214FC3 Last Signal : 23% Average Signal : 32% Detection Counter : 35 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:49:53 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:45 PM MAC Address : 00-17-3f-21-4f-c3 RSSI : -86 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Belkin Corporation Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : windyhillcamping Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 34% Detection Counter : 55 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:12 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:07 PM MAC Address : 00-1d-7e-f7-2c-3c RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco-Linksys, LLC Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : 2WIRE723 Last Signal : 23% Average Signal : 34% Detection Counter : 36 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:13 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:51 PM MAC Address : 00-18-3f-73-40-a9 RSSI : -86 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : 2Wire, Inc Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : m and d campground Last Signal : 21% Average Signal : 22% Detection Counter : 18 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:18 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:42 PM MAC Address : 00-18-39-b5-2e-bf RSSI : -87 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco-Linksys LLC Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : deades Last Signal : 23% Average Signal : 23% Detection Counter : 1 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:37 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:37 PM MAC Address : 00-23-69-67-4d-af RSSI : -86 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.442 Channel Number : 7 Company Name : Cisco-Linksys, LLC Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 41% Average Signal : 29% Detection Counter : 62 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:39 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:52:01 PM MAC Address : 00-17-59-db-d5-d0 RSSI : -75 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.452 Channel Number : 9 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 24% Detection Counter : 60 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:45 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:59 PM MAC Address : 00-12-43-35-3e-60 RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 26% Average Signal : 30% Detection Counter : 58 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:46 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:52:00 PM MAC Address : 00-13-19-85-49-e0 RSSI : -84 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.442 Channel Number : 7 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 11 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 25% Average Signal : 26% Detection Counter : 9 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:47 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:09 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-73-10 RSSI : -85 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.462 Channel Number : 11 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 24% Detection Counter : 12 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:49 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:15 PM MAC Address : 00-19-aa-26-74-40 RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.412 Channel Number : 1 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 21% Detection Counter : 5 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:49 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:13 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-66-40 RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.412 Channel Number : 1 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 21% Average Signal : 21% Detection Counter : 1 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:52 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:52 PM MAC Address : 00-1a-6c-3c-76-a0 RSSI : -87 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.462 Channel Number : 11 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : DragonFire Last Signal : 18% Average Signal : 20% Detection Counter : 3 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : WPA-PSK Cipher : TKIP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:55 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:29 PM MAC Address : 00-1c-10-4f-59-67 RSSI : -89 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco-Linksys, LLC Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Graham Bible College Last Signal : 21% Average Signal : 26% Detection Counter : 13 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:57 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:12 PM MAC Address : 00-0d-3a-28-da-51 RSSI : -87 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Microsoft Corp. Maximum Speed : 54 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 26% Detection Counter : 8 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:57 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:14 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-aa-e0 RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 20% Average Signal : 20% Detection Counter : 16 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:50:58 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:52:01 PM MAC Address : 00-19-aa-14-80-00 RSSI : -88 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 21% Average Signal : 22% Detection Counter : 12 Security Enabled : No Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : None PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:02 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:52 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-65-b0 RSSI : -87 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.412 Channel Number : 1 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 28% Average Signal : 23% Detection Counter : 47 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:04 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:52:01 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-69-d0 RSSI : -83 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.462 Channel Number : 11 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ================================================== ================================================== SSID : Last Signal : 16% Average Signal : 18% Detection Counter : 2 Security Enabled : Yes Connectable : Yes Authentication : 802.11 Open Cipher : WEP PHY Types : ERP First Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:12 PM Last Detected On : 1/16/2010 6:51:58 PM MAC Address : 00-19-56-e9-65-c0 RSSI : -90 Channel Frequency (GHz): 2.437 Channel Number : 6 Company Name : Cisco Systems Maximum Speed : 2 Mbps ==================================================

So, I recently bought a Samsung LN32B360 LCD television for my bedroom. It has all of the standard connectivity, as well as a couple cool tricks like the VGA and USB2.0 connections. I also have a Samsung LN55B650 in another room, which is pretty much the same as the bedroom tv, but with 23 more inches of screen, a cool RSS content capability via wireless ethernet, and the feature in question, which is the USB 2.0 with .JPEG and .MP3 (and maybe .AVI?) capability. My smaller LN32B360 does have the USB 2.0 connectivity, but it does not have .JPEG or .MP3 capability, which I think is kind of silly. I would like to know if there is a way to enable my smaller tv to play those file types via USB2.0. I had a look at the circuitry hardware of both TV's, and they appear to have the same or similar form factor, except for the absence of the ethernet circuitry and a couple other small pieces of circuitry for other media connectivity (4 HMDI as opposed to 2 HMDI, side mounted RCA, etc.). I do not know if the smaller TV lacks the hardware to play JPEG, or if it just has a different set of software that wasn't made to play the JPEG files. As soon as i had my new 32" working, I checked for software updates, but after I had the software from Samsungs website loaded onto my usb drive, I found out that I already had the latest version of the software installed on my TV from the factory. Since I already had the USB drive out, and had some picture files on there, I decided to see if i could get the TV to play the pictures, but no dice. So, does anyone know of any software out there that I can use to update my current software that will enable my TV to play the JPEGS? I honestly will probably not even use the feature more than a few times just to try it out, but I think that is the hardware is already in place, and the software obviously exists since i have it on my other samsung TV, then my smaller TV should be able to play JPEG's. Could I possibly download the software update for my larger tv (which does have JPEG capability) and flash my smaller tv with that software?