[philthomas]

Understood, but your ISP is BT and your daughter's ISP is AOL.
Her IP Address and log in details will be different to yours, so if you try to configure it at your house, you will hit problems.

You really need to set things up at her place. What is her existing setup ? has she got AOL Broadband or 56k Dial Up ?. Has she got a Wirelees Modem/Router ?

[christine154]

yes she has aol.broadband and the same netgear modem router that i mentioned earlier

[philthomas]

OK, well all you need to do is one of the following :

1. Install a Wireless Network (NIC) Card into yoour grandaughter's PC ... something like this one

or

2. Use a USB Wireless Adaptor like this one

As this PC is old and only has USB 1 Ports , I would suggest Option 1 .... fitting the card will take 10 mins and only requires a screwdriver .... it just slots into a spare PCI Slot.

Whichever you choose, once fitted .... you install the drivers and when at your daughter's house, it will find the Wireless Network and ask for the encryption key (assuming wireless security is enabled) .... that's it ..... your grandaughter's PC does not require a Modem as the Wireless card/adaptor connects to the modem in your daughter's Wireless Modem/Router.

[philthomas]

I should have mentioned also, that your grandaughter's PC will not require AOL Software to be installed, this is likely to confuse and conflict with the wireless setup.

[christine154]

thanks for that now the info you asked for from everest its 64 pages long? and it will not let me attached it will i havehave to brake it down for attaching ?

[philthomas]

The main things we are interested in is the Processor (CPU) and RAM

But if you are happy with the PC's performance and it's not going to be used for any demanding tasks, dont worry about it.

[christine154]

2 tic i will have a look for you i no it might need memory (ram ) but it will only be used for kids websites cbbs ,disney and barbie lol for playing games and printing off thing on the sites

[christine154]

right is this what you need
[ Processors / Pentium III ]
Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel
Version Pentium III
External Clock 100 MHz
Current Clock 1000 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 3.3 V
Status Enabled
Upgrade Slot 1
Socket Designation SLOT 1



------[ Memory ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical Memory:
Total 95 MB
Used 71 MB
Free 23 MB
Utilization 75 %
Swap Space:
Total 228 MB
Used 99 MB
Free 129 MB
Utilization 43 %
Virtual Memory:
Total 324 MB
Used 171 MB
Free 153 MB
Utilization 53 %
Physical Address Extension (PAE):
Supported by Operating System Yes
Supported by CPU Yes
Active No
Problems & Suggestions:
Problem Modern operating systems require at least 128 MB system memory for optimum performance.

[philthomas]

Yep ...... as I suspected, the CPU and RAM are very small.
How does it run ? are you waiting ages for the system to boot up and for things to open ?

It definitely needs more RAM for XP to run efficiently, but only you know how fast or slow it is and whether it's acceptable.

[christine154]

well i think it runs ok lol it does need more ram what do i have to get for that and is it easy to do ?my daughter was playing cards on it and it opens up windows ok my doc's and all that i think it will be ok for my grandaughter butif its easy enough i will stick some more memory in it this should be fun well they say your never to old to learn