CompUSA in-store sale 02/06-02/12

[allisolm]

pdf Ad

Also cost plus 7% 2/06 only pdf here

 

[salaku]

Wonder what would be the price for sony notebooks?

 

[drifter106]

they have the prices on the seagates jackuped high u don't save anything...
thanks for the heads up though... i am quite sure there is propably some savings somewhere there though...

 

[ttown]

thanks... will be in line early for one of the wireless pci cards

 

[Subh2o]

where the heck did you get cost +7%???

I re posted because it seemed a different deal from you title

 

[Subh2o]

I guess you meant this ad not the PDF you showedcost +7%

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: Subh2o
I guess you meant this ad not the PDF you showedcost +7%

I linked to both ads - the in-store sale and the cost +7% one-day only ad.

 

[BigEdMuustaffa]

they don't call em CrapUSA for nothing...

 

[gjc12]

There's a Seagate 300GB external USB2/Firewire drive for $300 - $40 instant - $40 mail in - $30 (10% off) = $190. Looks like that's as good as it gets on the drive deals.

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: gjc12
There's a Seagate 300GB external USB2/Firewire drive for $300 - $40 instant - $40 mail in - $30 (10% off) = $190. Looks like that's as good as it gets on the drive deals.

the $300 is after the rebates

 

[GoingUp]

is that for the entire store? or just some items?

 

[cyberia]

Isn't that AMD 64 PC from HP a good deal? $800 + tax out the door. No rebates.

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (1MB cache)
DL +/- DVD burner
512 MB RAM
200GB HD
Win XP Media Center

Can a similarly configured Dell (with a P4 of course) be found at this price?

 

[imverygifted]

i want to say no just because it doesnt state the video card in it

 

[gjc12]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613

Originally posted by: gjc12
There's a Seagate 300GB external USB2/Firewire drive for $300 - $40 instant - $40 mail in - $30 (10% off) = $190. Looks like that's as good as it gets on the drive deals.

the $300 is after the rebates

Actually no, it's before. Not that it's available online, but try adding it to your cart and that will clear it up for you. The price added to your cart automatically shows the $40 off and it gets added as $259.99. There's still the $40 MIR, plus buy it in store and use that 10% off. Only question is if they take it off the original price, or the price after the instant rebate is applied.

 

[BoGMan1a]

Originally posted by: imverygifted
i want to say no just because it doesnt state the video card in it

It looks to be the model m1160n and has an fx5200xt 128mb card in it. No idea on the performance of this card but I imagine it is pretty plain Jane and would need to be replaced in order to make this a worthwhile box. However, adding a 6600GT to it for $220 or so would get you to regular price again but with a very capable box.

 

[VirtualLarry]

"XT" on the end of NVidia-based cards is generally equivalent to the "SE' or "LE" on ATI-based baed card - the ultimate in "Low-End", "eXtra-Terrible", "Sleazy Edition", etc.

 

[Pardus]

they don't call em CrapUSA for nothing...

Welcome to ConUSA, how may we rip you off today

 

[ttown]

snagged the att wireless pci adapter for $12.99

Don't know how it compares to other wireless PCI adapters, but it's WAY better than an old gigafast pcmcia card I have.
I was worried that I'd still have to get an external antenna, but was pleasantly suprised with a consistent ~77% ("good") signal strength to my neighbors wireless router.
No idea how far away that is, but I could only intermittently connect via my pcmcia laptop card at ~30% signal.

The software utility seemed a bit flakey... but overall I'm happy, considering no rebate hassle.

thanks allisolm

 

[ttown]

Did anyone else grab an ATT wireless PCI adapter?

I'm having trouble with the bundled utility. It shows singnals of AP's around my neighborhood, but when I hi-light one and click on the "connect" button, it doesn't really connect. It shows details for that chosen access-point (like signal strength, SSID, etc) -- but it doesn't connect me to it.
It appears that once I'm connected to a network, there's nothing that little utility can do to disconnect/change me from it.

I'm knowledgeable enough to work things out from the DOS prompt, but it sure would be nice to have that utility actually DO what it implies it can do.

Anyone else with that problem? What the heck am I missing??
(This is on a machine running win98se, btw)

 

[imported_gimper48]

Yeah I have 4 AT&T cards and they all work like champs. Dirt cheap and encrypt well too., Whaa hhooo. The setup is a bit fussy but once you are done you are good to go.

 

[imported_gimper48]

Ok just read your whole question. Run the wizard. If you do not implement your settings via their wizard (in other words if you know what you are doing and manually set it up it will not work). Go through the wizard add your ssid by yourself. Then once it has that in there go to the other settings. You have to apply it a few times. ONce it is working it will stay working. As I said the setup is a bit fussy.

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: gimper48
Ok just read your whole question. Run the wizard. If you do not implement your settings via their wizard (in other words if you know what you are doing and manually set it up it will not work). Go through the wizard add your ssid by yourself. Then once it has that in there go to the other settings. You have to apply it a few times. ONce it is working it will stay working. As I said the setup is a bit fussy.

lol... Yep, that seemed to have done the trick.
Dang... a 4 year degree and 10+ years work experience down the drain.

btw: DON'T use the "current" utility off the web-site. It's a lesser version 1.43(?) than what came in the box with mine (1.52) -- and is way worse.

EDIT: I take that back... the "connect" button DOES appear to work (mostly) -- but it doesn't renew the IP/mask/gateway of the adapter. gimper48, can you confirm that yours does? If your gateway address happens to be the same as the "foreign" access-point, it would be difficult to determine. Can you connect to your own, contact the 'net, "connect" to an other AP, and contact the 'net again without doing anything else?
For me, I still have to do a release/renew after I've chosen (and supposedly "connected") the AP... OR... go through the wizard each time. I've put this card on my "experimental" box, so I can't say for sure that something else I have isn't interfering with it.
EDIT 2: The wizard works fine for me when setting up "my" LAN, but I'd like to switch freely and easily between my own lan and others in the neighborhood.

 

[psxjunky]

Thanks ! There are a few things I can buy

 

[Shinare]

I just bought the AT&T wireless-g USB 2.0 adapter and I am having the trouble listed above. Its like I can connect to the network, but i am not able to communicate on it. It says connected, signal strength is %100 but I cant do an "ipconfig /renew" it never finds my DHCP server. If I manually set the IP settings it still cant communicate on the network or out to the internet even tho all the IP settings are correct for my network.

I think I can chalk this one up to a $19 lesson learned. You get what you pay for.

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: Shinare
I just bought the AT&T wireless-g USB 2.0 adapter and I am having the trouble listed above. Its like I can connect to the network, but i am not able to communicate on it. It says connected, signal strength is %100 but I cant do an "ipconfig /renew" it never finds my DHCP server. If I manually set the IP settings it still cant communicate on the network or out to the internet even tho all the IP settings are correct for my network.

I think I can chalk this one up to a $19 lesson learned. You get what you pay for.

do what gimper said. You may have to do a "ipconfig /release_all", then go through the wizard, then "/renew_all". Once you get it to connect to your own lan, it'll reconnect fine on next boot-up. Just a plain renew doesn't fix the problem (for me anyway) -- do the release_all, choose your connection in the utility, "connect", then do a renew_all.
(I think this'll fix ya, if my memory serves me right....)
My problem remains that I want to switch from one AP to another to another... and the utility (for me) doesn't do it completely.

edit: utility app wise, it's pretty disapointing for a big-name brand in the year 2005/2004.
other than that very annoying aspect, I'll keep it -- as range is apparently excellent (really no clue to real range -- i just know I can pick up mulitple AP's in my 'hood with strong signal-strength)