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i have a router and modem in one. it has no password and no firewall. i called dell and verizon and talked on the phone for over 4 hours and nothing was solved. i went to my friend's house and it worked!! he has linkysis by the way. i just came back and it doesnt work. i guess the dell wireless card is not compatible with the free modem and router in one provided by verizon. i have the westell 327w.

 

you probably didn't turn on wireless networking on the router, they are usually of by default for security reasons.

goto
192.168.1.1

password and login should both be: admin

 

nah, its not that. my brother's laptop is on our wireless and it works fine for him.

 

Hey all!
Just wanted to let you know that I received my Vostro 1400 today!
In fact I'm typing this on it right now

Well.. I'll keep playing around with it tonight.

Until next time. :-D

 

You could get a cheap router and daisy chained it onto your all in one router that would fix it. You should be able to pick up an old 802.11b router for cheap nowdays.

 

hmm, i have a 4 years old linksys router with g. i think that might work but then i donno how to turn off the router in my router and modem device. i remember doing it once with a verizon rep but i forgot it now.

 

I'm getting a D-Link wireless router this afternoon, hoping it'll go smoothly and with no problems :S My first time setting up a wireless connection in the house.

 

Who said anything about turning it off ?

 

lol nevermind, i got it to work after messing with it for 5 hours. its weird... i was installing the latest driver for it and it failed during middle of the installation. i went to check my laptop 20minutes later and it was connected... pretty weird.

 

F*¤%... to get a better price I called Dell and asked if it was possible to cancel my order that had been postponed for 3 weeks (delivery August 21).

That 'should' be OK according to the sales rep but I was convinced to cancel it before I placed a new order. I really pushed my idea that I may keep my old since I could encounter a long delivery on the new order. When I now log I see in red letters that there is a six week delivery time... I am very, very, very unhappy with Dell right now. They could not stop the cancelled order either.

I will try every avenue to not buy a Vostro 1400 now and will have to convince myself that I do not want 1) bland design 2) loose fitting battery. I do not believe the 'grainy' screen would have bothered me.

What has been your competitor laptops in the same price range as the 1400? I want a 14" laptop with 1440x900 res (NOT 1280x800), 2GB RAM, ok GPU and ~160GB HD, built-in webcam and mic, Blutetooth and some more. HDMI would be very nice.