Hello!

Another question if I may relating to our PC and Printer. Have any of you taken your PC's with you to Oz? I only ask as ours is all set up as we want it with software etc and it would be so much easier to take it with us rather than buy new...is this possible?

Any advice welcome!

Thanks!!

were taking ours, need to get a new modem and our printer just died so will buy a new one over there, dont see any reason why it shoudnt work,

You shouldn't have any problems.

They work fine!
To save you changing the zillion UK plugs, bring some of those multi-plug with 4 or 6 on them and just change the one where it is plugged into the wall! Of course in QLD, it is illegal to change the plugs yourself!

Andrew

MODEM?? you still on dial up, sad

I just took the hard drive, as thats where all of the info is stored that (and possibly the original Window install disc) is all you need to slip into a new box on arrival, but then again IT is my business.

As for changing plgs most PC's now days have a detachable lead (like a kettle lead) you can just buy new ones with AUS/ NZ plugs built on.

Depending on where they're moving to....dial up may be the only option.

[QUOTE=ex_exile;4828249]MODEM?? you still on dial up, sad

Well whatever that little box that the phone line is connected to is called ...I still call it a Modem

There are different types of modem not just dial-up.

Nope, modems are for analoge lines for ADSL you use a router.

Modem = MODulator DEMoulator

*ahem* an excerpt taken from the inevitable site.

'Broadband modems should still be classed as modems, since they use complex waveforms to carry digital data. They are more advanced devices than traditional dial-up modems as they are capable of modulating/demodulating hundreds of channels simultaneously'.

Router? The black box most people have for their ADSL connection is a router is it? You mean some people may use an ADSL modem router for their connection.

We are taking ours as its fairly new. It was made up for us by the IT teacher, so got a better computer than we could buy in shops.

Mind you I brought our old computers hard drive and keyboard to Prague as hand luggage!!
Dont know how I did it, as I was pregnant and by myself!! Bloomin nuts springs to mind! As it was big and heavy, the computer not me

GEMS

Hi there,
Ours arrived less than two weeks ago and is perfectly fine, we just bought an adaptor which we plugged the extension lead into, it's great!!
S xx

Frankly that quote is crap, but thanks for playing.

Modulate / demodulate refers to the process of converting from analogue to digital / digital to analogue. With ADSL there is no analogue digital conversion.

You could call the box a bicycle if you wanted to but it still wouldnt be one, try cycling to the shops on it.

Just a mention by someone who isn't IT trained. We had a near new Epson printer/scanner/copier when we left the UK. When we ran out of ink here in Oz, we found we could not get the inks for it. Not internationally recognised, although there were very similar models here, they wouldn't fit.
After numerous phone calls to Epson and talking to lots of dealers, we had to buy another printer/scanner/copier and hopefully send the Epson we brought with us back to a relative in the UK who can use it and replace the inks.
So, if you need a printer etc, might be worth waiting until you are here, in case it is incompatible re - inks.

I brought our Dell desktop and Dell laptop here (laptop on plane and desktop on a ship) and they work fine.

You can even buy plug adapters for UK plugs here. I use one for the desktop.