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| Anybody have a serial/sync cable they can sell me? Help a poor teacher out!  |
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| ummm....please?  |
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| why no, I haven't looked at alternative modes to syncing...do the other methods play nice with ActiveSync? Somebody tell me more? |
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| Serial, Ethernet, IrDA, WiFi, and if your device supports it (bluetooth).. |
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| Tenjeangosi mentioned wifi...I just bought off eBay an Orinoco silver card and have a wireless router set up at home (I'm a network noob as well and the router currently only is set up for the Tivo downstairs)...could I use the orinoco card to sync then? Will ActiveSync allow this? At least initially doesn't it require a serial connection? Thanks for your time. |
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| As my article explains, and the networking guides in the support section (worth a look to cover the basics and troubleshooting) you cannot sync over a network until you have a partnership, so you don't have this option - yet.
You mentioned in your PM that you didn't have Infrared, as mentioned in the guide this is an inexpencive option for you, assuming either your motherboard natively supports it - in which case give the manufacturer a call and ask for an IR dongle, or get a USB one from eBay. Again there is more info and troubleshooting in the support section.
Bluetooth is not really a way out, it's pricy for a start and ideally you want a StrongArm device. |
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| well...sorry if I'm being dense, but I thought the article was saying that transer rate would be the same as serial and serial cables for my NEC 770 aren't rare (yet). Thanks for the help |
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| Ethernet synchronisation will go at whatever the maximum Bus speed of the H/PC is - usually pushing something like 14Mbps with 100Mbps network card. Serial and Infrared (in this case) can't go over 115.2 Kbps with ActiveSync.
The article wasn't written about the MP770, it wasn't really written against any particular device. One could summise if it were it would be around hp devices, as they are by far the most common H/PC type. |
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| NO LONGER NEED CABLE. Thanks! |
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