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Dear Folk, 20140127 I use a motel in London frequently (close to my daughter's home in an area where we used to live) which has safe parking. The motel has free (unencrypted!) wifi in bar, reception and adjoining pub. Using a 'newish' laptop Dell E6530 on last trip rather than my more ancient laptop, I found I could get a 'reasonable reception' for evening check of emails in a room close to reception, which had never occurred before and motel has not changed its wifi set up in 7 years (b,g standard). This begs the question, is receiving set up important for distance reception? Would an investment in (at say less than GBP 50) get a wireless dongle with good pick up? Motel is down market and GBP£50 would be equivalent of one night's extra fee in nearby "hotel" with room reception. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Data: Windows 7 Pro (OpenSUSE in Virtual Drive with VM), DELL E6530, i7 3520 2-core 22nm , 4GB RAM, Intel 4000 graphics, Intel PROset Wifi Intel Centrino Advanced N-6205 device -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq