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Laptop: PC card or USB adapter

Mar 19, 2005 7:27AM PST

i have a laptop and am looking for an adaptor to make it wireless. I have a linksys wireless-b router and was looking into an adapter from their products. i saw the pc card adapter but it doesnt support windows XP so then i looked into their usb adapter and it does. now i am thinking of getting the usb adapter but was wondering what are the differences if there is one? is one better than the other? i know that the pc card would be better to move around because it wouldnt have the wire that the usb does but other than that is there any difference?

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If you want to move even more far out...
Mar 19, 2005 8:07AM PST
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thanks
Mar 20, 2005 3:58AM PST

so i guess there isnt any difference?

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There is.
Mar 20, 2005 4:14AM PST

If your USB is all of 1.1 or 11 megabit speed, then an 802.11g USB device can't reach top speed. I offered that link since the USB device has some tricks you can perform on it.

Bob

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Mar 21, 2005 8:14AM PST

everything is wireless-b, the router and the adapter. thanks again, im off to buying my usb adapter