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Old 14th Nov 2006, 16:20
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Capn Notarious
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Any Smart ideas would be appreciated

My dear mother (80) has an ACER laptop, purchased this year.
This is connected to her broadband, with a DLink wireless ADSL router modem. The plug in usb adaptor is not used, lower flag page will say signal strength excellent. One wall in between, router and pooter: range ten metres
On powering up the computer may or may not find
  1. the server.The this page is unavaliable will appear.
  2. or open her home page which is Google.
  3. or the mail which is outlook express.
Sometimes she opens outlook to download messages, with normal function. But if after having composed an email : sending the mail seems to stay in the outbox because the server cannot be found.
In addition the little icon of a radiating antenna will disappear from the lower bar that has start.
But power down then restart and the computer, will send or ask shall it send.
It has had a new hard drive and the same problems existed before.
This has baffled me and others for too long.
I don't really want to lay a piece of Cat five cable as it could cause trip ups.

Kind regards
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