Express Gate questions

Hello,

A couple of questions. First do you use Express gate? Second is there a way to set up Express gate to use a wireless connection? I have only tried to use Express gate one time and it seemed it could not connect to the interenet as no connection was available till I logged into Vista.

So do I need to have a wired connection to use Express gate?

Thanks!

 

I only used ExpressGate once just to see how to do it; like any other OS you have to set up the hardware and once I gave it the name of my wireless network and the password it connected just fine. I can't remember exactly how; since I went RAID0 on this G50Vt ExpressGate no longer functions. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

 

Well I solved my own problem it seems when you start Express gate you need to launch the browser then configure the wireless.

After I did that it worked fine.

 

Curious, but how come you've only used it once? It seems to be very convenient to just turn on the computer via express gate if solely for web browsing.

 

There are some disadvantages, the main I can think of is no power management which kills battery life and produces heat.

Also I would hate to browse in a different browser than my typical one; I would not be able to refer to and add bookmarks, used stored passwords etc.

But that's just me.

BTW Express Gate seems to work now even in RAID with the latest BIOS (or so I've heard).

 

On my model (G50Vt-A2) ExpressGate no longer worked after I set the drives to RAID 0. It's even in the Manual: "ExpressGate will not function after you create a RAID 0 set in the Notebook PC."

Maybe one day ASUS will release an updated version with RAID 0 support, but I've tried re-installing the original from the Drivers CD with no joy. I assume it's a Master Boot Record issue, and the current installers don't support a RAID 0 MBR. It could also be that EG needs to be in the hidden Recovery Partition which of course RAID blew away; if anyone knows the answer for sure I'd love to hear.

 

It certainly will work with RAID 0. Try this, it worked for me.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=348132

 

Cool, I'll definitely give it a try, tx. I already have the 2.10 BIOS, but I guess I'm off to download the 250MB ExpressGate file at dialup speeds (thanks, ASUS - not!).

 

The speed is not the problem....the Asus servers tend to be mostly unreliable. They sometimes die before the file completes downloading.

 

You don't need a wired connection for express gate. All you need to know is your name of the wireless connection and password of course. It does take a bit of time to connect to it I noticed.

 

That's just the icing on the cake, so to speak The latest EG software is 296MB and I started the download 6PM local; it's 10:35 now and I still have 3+ hours to go! That's pathetic; I have a 6Mbit connection.

EDIT: Whoops, spoke too soon, first attempt failed 260MBand about 7 hours in! Fortunately now that it's late I could connect to the China server (earlier it was timing out) and throughput is MUCH better, probably averaging 100KB/sec. Yay! But first try there failed too... gotta love ASUS's servers (not!).

WOOT, looks like I have a good 'un... now to see if it works...

 

No way to power manage? That sucks

 

Congrats tallan! Third time's the charm...

There are power management options in EG, but I'm not sure how well they work. I haven't done a battery lifetime test to check.

 

Thanks, the install went great (+rep for you!). Very different GUI from the version on my N80; I wonder if I should update that unit too? But I still can't get it installed on my N10; it keeps failing saying the file Splashtop.dll.dll1 wasn't marked for copy. Uninstall shows the same error. I found the way to delete ExpressGate by hand once but have forgotten... anyone?

As for power management you can dim the screen easily and change power down timings but not much else as I remember...

 

When I updated my ExpressGate, I didn't remove the old version, I just installed the new one and I guess it just installed it over top because everything worked okay. I'll try again tonight because I did a recovery to factory settings last night (in preparation for RAID benchmarks, hope to have some numbers in a week or so, if my workload lightens a little).

 

Just did an Expressgate update like I promised...all I did was run the silent.bat file and everything went fine from there. I don't recall which version it was, but it is one of those versions which supports RAID0.

 

I have the same problem with the splashtopdll.dll1. Does anyone know how to fix this?