Calling all computer peeps Laptop help needed

stubs
stubs Posts: 5,001
edited November 2009 in The Crudcatcher
I have just tripped over the ethernet cable connection from the router to the laptop and ripped the ethernet plug out of the laptop socket. The cable plugs in but wont lock in place and the connection goes unless I hold the plug in place. Tried a different cable and it is the socket thats knackered my question is it possible to open up the laptop and fit a new socket

Dont suggest getting wireless or you will get a rude answer :lol:
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  • xstrathyx
    xstrathyx Posts: 1,104
    ok i wont suggest wireless then.

    Do people still connect to routers via ethernet....? oh well

    I'd suggest wireless with some form of encryption security, but your not going down that road for some reason.
  • Turrican
    Turrican Posts: 755
    have u checked the little plastic thing on the cable, its reall small notch on the end of the cable that can snap off easy and wont enable you to keep the cable in place. What its does is click the cable into the port without it it just slip back out trust me i got one cable running to my laptop and one into my xbox held in by bit off glue tack haha :D .
    I would thing the cable bit is snapped off first than the port on your laptop as its be weaker. ill try show pic if dont know what i mean or look at both ends of cable is tin y plasitc lip on end.
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  • Sounds like what Turrican has said. I think your cable is knackered rather than the port. Do you need a new cable then? If so, how long does it need to be, what colour and address please :D
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  • xstrathyx
    xstrathyx Posts: 1,104
    would that be IP address - for hacking purposes

    or

    his physical postal address - so you can go round and charge him to fix his predicment :wink:
    Sounds like what Turrican has said. I think your cable is knackered rather than the port. Do you need a new cable then? If so, how long does it need to be, what colour and address please :D
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    stubs wrote:
    I have just tripped over the ethernet cable connection from the router to the laptop and ripped the ethernet plug out of the laptop socket. The cable plugs in but wont lock in place and the connection goes unless I hold the plug in place. Tried a different cable and it is the socket thats knackered my question is it possible to open up the laptop and fit a new socket

    Dont suggest getting wireless or you will get a rude answer :lol:

    i see from your post that you have tried a new cable.....so its not the cable thats shat...unless your second cable is also shat too.....

    replacing laptop ethernet ports...is possible...but you better be damn good with a micro-soldering iron (not a cheap crap one...a mate once did something similar but has a metcal...) and magnifying glass!
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  • drabfurs
    drabfurs Posts: 188
    It is tricky. If you don't want to go down that route you can get a network card that plugs in via USB or more like in most cases PCMCIA or if a new laptop PCIE.
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    stubs wrote:
    my question is it possible to open up the laptop and fit a new socket
    I could do it for you at work but that doesn't really help. Our employees are in the habit of ripping cat5 cables out of things on an almost daily basis :roll:

    Bodge it with gaffa tape for the ultimate ghetto effect.
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  • xSTRATHYx wrote:
    would that be IP address - for hacking purposes

    or

    his physical postal address - so you can go round and charge him to fix his predicment :wink:
    Sounds like what Turrican has said. I think your cable is knackered rather than the port. Do you need a new cable then? If so, how long does it need to be, what colour and address please :D
    Deffo the IP address ;):lol:
    No, I just have a sea of ethernet cables for just such occasions. But as cee pointed out, he seems to have tried a new one, no idea how I missed that!
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    xSTRATHYx wrote:
    ok i wont suggest wireless then.

    Do people still connect to routers via ethernet....? oh well

    I'd suggest wireless with some form of encryption security, but your not going down that road for some reason.

    My house is built with a brick weatherskin over some weird cinder block made out of foundry slag which has a high iron content effectively turning my walls into a Faraday cage. Result is spending lots of money on wireless routers doesnt work. When I had the house rewired 2 years ago I had the spark fit ethernet cable to the bedrooms and the living room with some neat ethernet sockets next to the power sockets. Its worked fine with mega fast connection which you cant get with wireless and its pretty secure unfortunately walking away with the fooking cable wrapped round your ankle highlights its limitations. At the moment I am powered by the magic of Blutack.
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