Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Minimum Requirements for Wireless Network

by wrytat Aug 4, 2005 2:23PM PDT

Can somebody tell me what is the minimum system requirements for setting up a wireless network? If the computer's that is going to send data through the wireless network processor is only Pentium 2, is it fine? And what do I need to set up a wireless network so that I can send data from 1 computer to another? Thank you.

Discussion is locked

2 Posts

- Collapse + Expand Details

- Collapse -

Let's see.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 4, 2005 3:10PM PDT

I have this Pentium 266 MHz Compaq Armada with 64 megabytes running Windows 2000 SP4 and I have some 802.11B card that works fine in it.

How about that as a minimum?

Bob

- Collapse -

Hardware minimums...

by Dick White Aug 4, 2005 11:25PM PDT

Hardware is probably not the limiting factor, it's the operating system - which may in its own way impose the hardware minimums. A PII desktop system with an open PCI slot running Win98SE should be able to support the drivers that a WiFi card needs. A USB 1.1 port would work too. For a laptop of that vintage, it would need a USB 1.1 port, but you'd have to determine the exact specs of the PCMCIA/PC-Card slot to be sure the new adapter card is compatible.

dw

Back to Networking & Wireless forum