I'm so old I've forgotten, but I am also new!

[edgar]

Hi,  I'm new to A.Org.  Hello everybody!

I bought my A500 way back in 1988 and it served me well until January 1995 when I moved to a PC.  In order to fund some of the gear needed for the DX2/66, I sold all my miggy gear including a GVP A520 (fully populated). That single action has ranked among the greatest bug-bears of my life since!  (That 52MB hard-drive was the sweetest I had experienced and found my PC hard disk slow by comparison.

So now I'm heavily into the Retro scene, but strangely struggling to get my Amiga experience up and running.  

(Something to do with the missing piece of the jigsaw methinks)

Anyway, I'll just float about on the sidelines for the mo' until I've got something decent to contribute.  I don't want to make a fool of myself.  -  But it's feeling great to be here and long may it continue.

Cheers,

Brian. :-?

[edgar]

To: SamuraiCrow & AmigaEd

I take most of it back (again ), I got WinUAE up and running at 02.46 this morning. Apparently my brain isn't just quite as stodgy as I had assumed.  (The joints are stiff but still moderately flexible - the brain is much the same !) So 'm now re-kindling my affection for Cannon Fodder  
 & Sensible Soccer (how could I possibly have been so stupid as to deny myself this for so many years

I'm online using an Acer Aspire 1363, 512MB, GeForce FX5200 and, surprisingly, barring a couple of teething problems, WinUAE is running as sweet as a nut.

Question for the Tech-heads: I am presently "on-line" by way of a wireless connection by the name of NETGEAR. Sometimes I get a message about a Residential Gateway.  The baud rate varies from 1Mbps to what seems like an unbelievable 15Mbps, but it really does whizz through downloads at an amazing rate. - Problem is: I don't know whose Internet link I'm on, so I can't ascertain why it's so fast. I've only had the Acer for a fortnight and switched on the wireless lan to see what it looked like, and here I am.  I'm familiar with landline broadband but this is ridiculously fast (at first I thought I must be dreaming) and what's more it's free.
What is the range for a wireless 80211.b/g lan?

edgar

[edgar]

Cheers adz,

Now I'm reassured.

edgar   :-)