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    Internet Related question?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Bwen, May 4, 2007.

  1. Bwen

    Bwen Notebook Evangelist

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    Not really sure where to place this or what the topic title should be but recently I had my notebook connected to my cable modem through an ethernet cable and lightning hit a power pole somewhere near by causing the ethernet port on my cable modem to die.

    I have resulted to use a usb cable from my modem to my notebook, but my question is that seeing that it's connected by usb, will this cause my harddrive to clog up with any temp files of some sort? I'm worried that my 80gb harddrive will be cluttered up if I use the internet via a usb cable.

    Or am I just worrying about the wrong things?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Bwen, May 4, 2007
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  2. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you connect by usb you need to install some drivers for the modem. But that is it and it wont be more then a few megabytes. You still use a browser like IE or firefox to surf the net and they will manage your temp files on the disk. There is not differance to a network connection.
     
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  3. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    No difference, I wouldn't worry about that.

    However, if your laptop is under warranty, I'd still take it in. Who knows what else shorted on your motherboard.
     
    Gator, May 4, 2007
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