Hi George, Thanks for the information, My son says it is possible that Santa may stop off at pc world and pick up a wireless router for the laptop! (ho ho ho!) I think I get most of what you said, but if you did take the laptop e.g. abroad I assume you would have to subscribe to another network to access the wireless access point? if so? who provides such a service?Sorry for all the questions George but I guess I'm just curious. Once again thanks. Alistair ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bell To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:04 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: laptop help please! Hi Alistair, I see your first questions has been answered, but no comment on the second. Centrino is a type of processor which has been developed specifically fore wireless networking. If your new laptop is wireless ready, that's a potential bonus for you. Put very simply, it gives you the potential to hook up to the internet, and send and receive mail, without actually been connected with wires. This could be in your own home, or virtually anywhere in the world which provides wireless access. The net result is that you could simply pick up your laptop and work anywhere in the house, or even outside, that suited you. No dragging cables about. Of course for home use, you would need a wireless modem, router or access point, but these days prices have fallen considerably. I'll spare the connectivity details, but suffice to say with Windows XP, especially SP2, things have become much easier to set up, and once you have tasted wireless with a laptop, you won't want to go back to hard wire - unless you have really huge amounts of data to shift about at extremely high speed. George. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of allykelly Sent: 08 December 2005 14:57 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] laptop help please! Hi folks, Following the demise of my desktop pc I have been presented with a new laptop for Christmas, problem is for the life of me I can't find the keystroke for the jaws curser!It's driving me nuts! I'm using jfw 4.5.1 with xp home. Any help would be appreciated. Apparently this machine has something called centrino technology, and is wireless ready, sadly this is just double dutch to me, anyone who could explain these terms to me would help me enormously. Alistair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/190 - Release Date: 01/12/2005