USB Wi-Fi adapter

RumRat

EveryWhere wrote: »

You must be joking!
Linking someone to an adapter at double it's normal price cannot be considered money saving.
You don't need to state that it is the cheapest, but on a money saving website, some might imagine that if you are going to recommend something to a relative novice, you might take care that they don't get ripped off in the process.

Small change to you, but I would be irritated spending £12.59+ on an item that could have been purchased for £6.39.

It wasn't double it's normal price, yours was half the normal price.
You obviously get easily irritated.
It wasn't a rip off, stop being so melodramatic.

EveryWhere

RumRat wrote: »

It wasn't double it's normal price, yours was half the normal price.
You obviously get easily irritated.
It wasn't a rip off, stop being so melodramatic.

Glib comment from someone linking to an item double the going price.
I'm sure that you are suitably embarrassed and try to use humour to cover your embarrassment.
Next time, try a bit harder. This is a money saving website, not a p*** taking website.
We help people to save money here. :money:

Enterprise_1701C

Have to admit, just caught up on this and rather surprised anyone is removing cabling before having the carpet fitted.

That said we do a lot of the cabling, people rip it out then change their minds.

That said, we are IT/Telecom engineers.

If we ever build or refurbish our own house we will be putting in a minimum of 4 cat5 sockets in each room, in many cases more, cat5 is so much more than IT cable! Would not want to totally depend on totally on the wifi.

RumRat

EveryWhere wrote: »

Glib comment from someone linking to an item double the going price.
I'm sure that you are suitably embarrassed and try to use humour to cover your embarrassment.
Next time, try a bit harder. This is a money saving website, not a p*** taking website.
We help people to save money here. :money:

You'll have to try harder than that.......:rotfl:

worried_jim

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Have to admit, just caught up on this and rather surprised anyone is removing cabling before having the carpet fitted.

That said we do a lot of the cabling, people rip it out then change their minds.

That said, we are IT/Telecom engineers.

If we ever build or refurbish our own house we will be putting in a minimum of 4 cat5 sockets in each room, in many cases more, cat5 is so much more than IT cable! Would not want to totally depend on totally on the wifi.

Never had carpet before and there was no such thing WiFi when I moved in 15 years ago so input the internet cable along the bottom of the skirting board so it had to come up to allow the gripper rods to go down. Still have a hard wired access point in the spare bedroom.

The usb WiFi is going strong, currently getting 73mbps and very happy with it. New carpets look great!

kwikbreaks

takman wrote: »

Since when was £22.38 half the price of £12.59 :rotfl:

You really need to pay attention to how much postage is when comparing items

Not sure what happened there but the suggestion is currently showing at £6.39 and free post. I bought a similar one on eBay at a similar price some time back and it worked well (change of lappy allows wired again). I think some eBay sellers just bump the price way high when they are out of stock - probably easier than closing a listing and starting a new one.

EveryWhere

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Not sure what happened there but the suggestion is currently showing at £6.39 and free post. I bought a similar one on eBay at a similar price some time back and it worked well (change of lappy allows wired again). I think some eBay sellers just bump the price way high when they are out of stock - probably easier than closing a listing and starting a new one.

#21 has the explanation.

kwikbreaks

Ah that makes sense

Mine was £7.99 November 2017. I would have tried to get the cheapest at the time.

takman

worried_jim wrote: »

Never had carpet before and there was no such thing WiFi when I moved in 15 years ago so input the internet cable along the bottom of the skirting board so it had to come up to allow the gripper rods to go down. Still have a hard wired access point in the spare bedroom.

The usb WiFi is going strong, currently getting 73mbps and very happy with it. New carpets look great!

There definitely was Wi-Fi 15 years ago, here is an article from 14 years ago about the History of Wi-Fi:

https://www.economist.com/node/2724397

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Have to admit, just caught up on this and rather surprised anyone is removing cabling before having the carpet fitted.

That said we do a lot of the cabling, people rip it out then change their minds.

That said, we are IT/Telecom engineers.

If we ever build or refurbish our own house we will be putting in a minimum of 4 cat5 sockets in each room, in many cases more, cat5 is so much more than IT cable! Would not want to totally depend on totally on the wifi.

If your IT/Telecom professionals why would you be using extremely outdated Cat5? cable i doubt you would even be able to buy it anymore. The cheapest you can get is Cat5e cabling, iv'e used Cat6a cable in my house to future proof it as it wasn't much more than Cat6.

Enterprise_1701C

takman wrote: »

There definitely was Wi-Fi 15 years ago, here is an article from 14 years ago about the History of Wi-Fi:

https://www.economist.com/node/2724397



If your IT/Telecom professionals why would you be using extremely outdated Cat5? cable i doubt you would even be able to buy it anymore. The cheapest you can get is Cat5e cabling, iv'e used Cat6a cable in my house to future proof it as it wasn't much more than Cat6.

Sorry, we call it Cat5 because that is what our customers understand. At the moment it seems to be the standard request. I simply meant the sockets of the relevant standard at the time. If the broadband gets fast enough and well enough distributed to justify it then we might even go with Cat7.