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O2 Broadband and old laptop

  • 28-08-2010 12:24pm
    #1
    Old Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭


    I have an 9-year old laptop that doesn't run O2 mobile broadband well. I have tried a new laptop with the broadband and it runs perfectly so it must be the laptop. I don't want to spend €600 on a new laptop as I have a work laptop that does me fine. I just need this laptop for the internet basically.
    I was wondering where do you think the bottleneck is? I don't want to spend money on extra RAM to find that the USB is an old type and that the problem is with that or something like that.
    It is a Acer Aspire 1312 with 256MB RAM.
    I have gotten rid of unnecessary stuff running and cleaned the registry but no change.
    Thanks for any advice


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  • #2
    jpl888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭jpl888


    Old Jim wrote: »
    I have an 9-year old laptop that doesn't run O2 mobile broadband well. I have tried a new laptop with the broadband and it runs perfectly so it must be the laptop. I don't want to spend €600 on a new laptop as I have a work laptop that does me fine. I just need this laptop for the internet basically.
    I was wondering where do you think the bottleneck is? I don't want to spend money on extra RAM to find that the USB is an old type and that the problem is with that or something like that.
    It is a Acer Aspire 1312 with 256MB RAM.
    I have gotten rid of unnecessary stuff running and cleaned the registry but no change.
    Thanks for any advice

    I'll get you started. It isn't USB that's the problem. If the old laptop were only USB 1.x the broadband wouldn't work at all, because of the power requirements. If it were theoretically possible to use a HSDPA device with USB 1.x then that still wouldn't be the bottle neck because HSDPA in Ireland only goes to 7Mbps (if you are very lucky) and even USB 1.x is quite a bit faster than that.

    If it's an XP machine with 256Mb of RAM it won't be great but should be adequate as long as you haven't a load of rubbish on there.

    So it sounds to me that if there is anything slowing it down it is probably the software installation itself. The sure way to find out is to download Xubuntu http://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu and run from the CD. The modem should be detected out of the box and it should ask you to configure it when you boot up. If it works for you in Xubuntu then you know the problem is with your install.

    p.s. I'm only recommending Xubuntu in favour of Ubuntu because you only have 256Mb of RAM.


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