Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:35 am
Just My luck... (Technical Discussion)
Just finished setting up my parents new theatre system (New Widescreen LCD TV, surround sound, all the little shiny doodads, you know what im talking about! This and this. Yea, you know...).
Now, in order to demonstrate the newfound prowess of the TV (Mostly my setup of aformetioned TV and surround sound system), by hooking my Laptop up to it.
Immediately my dad thinks that the speakers are going to explode because of some odd noise the moment i connect the audio cable (Yes i connected it properly).
Not only that, my laptop grinds to a complete and utter halt, and starts accepting mouse and keyboard input only once every 2 seconds!
In utter, utter confusion, i disconnect the laptop, and remove it to my room, where, after about 30 seconds, it decides to run fine. i take it back into the lounge room, and it freezes again. Trying to operate the (Now paralyzed) computer shows that the WLAN card has shut down without me ordering it to. I remove the comuter from the room (again), disable the wireless, and take it back in.
Lo and behold, both speakers and laptop now run fine.
I immediately assume that the problem lies within my laptop's 2.4GHz wireless card, and the theatre system's wireless speaker tranciever. I do a little research, and find that LG decided (Rather stupidly, i might add), to conviniently place the operating frequency of the wireless base station in the same operating frequency as my WLAN card (And, operational WLAN network).
Does this strike anyone as odd?
Now, in order to demonstrate the newfound prowess of the TV (Mostly my setup of aformetioned TV and surround sound system), by hooking my Laptop up to it.
Immediately my dad thinks that the speakers are going to explode because of some odd noise the moment i connect the audio cable (Yes i connected it properly).
Not only that, my laptop grinds to a complete and utter halt, and starts accepting mouse and keyboard input only once every 2 seconds!
In utter, utter confusion, i disconnect the laptop, and remove it to my room, where, after about 30 seconds, it decides to run fine. i take it back into the lounge room, and it freezes again. Trying to operate the (Now paralyzed) computer shows that the WLAN card has shut down without me ordering it to. I remove the comuter from the room (again), disable the wireless, and take it back in.
Lo and behold, both speakers and laptop now run fine.
I immediately assume that the problem lies within my laptop's 2.4GHz wireless card, and the theatre system's wireless speaker tranciever. I do a little research, and find that LG decided (Rather stupidly, i might add), to conviniently place the operating frequency of the wireless base station in the same operating frequency as my WLAN card (And, operational WLAN network).
Does this strike anyone as odd?