I have just been on hoilday to my grandmas and I was without my PC for a week. So I am making up for lost time now. However i went to manchester <Sp?> and they have these internet boxes a bit like phone boxes but with the internet.

Even me as a freak can live more then a week without one :P

i can't!!!!! I NEED MY COMPUTER!!

yay! *hugs wireless laptop* i can surf anywhere within 300ft of my house! even if i don't have the net, i can still play with my 3hr-4hr battery! thats why i got a laptop.

Luckly, I want wireless

It depends if I am bored or busy as to whether I can cope without net access or not, if i was stuck somewhere dull then i'd miss it like crazy but like...when i went on holiday last month I didn't even give the internet a second thought!

yay! *hugs wireless laptop* i can surf anywhere within 300ft of my house! even if i don't have the net, i can still play with my 3hr-4hr battery! thats why i got a laptop.

Either you got one POWERFUL (not even on the market yet) wireless router, or you have people around you that have wireless. Those longest you will ever get out of a top of the line wireless router is 100ft at the most. There are people less than 50ft away from me with a 2.4ghz router and i hardly get their signal.

I mean i guess you could have spent thousands of dollars on a tower, but i highly doubt it.

Other than that, laptops are very nice. I wish i had a cheap one to play around in and bring to classes. Next year.

Well, I took my laptop up to a park down the road, at least 250ft away, i could still get 2-1mbps line, but it did cut out occasionally. We live in the countryside, on a hill. Would that explain anything?

We have this device:
http://netgear.com/products/details/WGU624.php

It says it works upto 400ft...

I would definitely miss my PC as well (actually, I'd miss Internet access more, but yeah). Thank goodness for my laptop. ;)