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Advice Needed On Wireless Laptop

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  • 18-01-2006 12:51am
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    WILKEL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭


    I will be getting a dell 8100 inspirion laptop (pentium3 about 800 mhz)
    the laptop is costing me nothing and I have a netopia pcimca wireless card and was wondering what wireless router I should get to make this set up work - The reason I ask is because I am concerned that the speeds wont be up to scratch with the older machine - I have 1mg broadband and a non wireless router on a more modern pc at the moment.
    It will just be used for surfing in the living room etc - nothing too heavy
    - thanks in advanced.


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    Borderfox
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    You can get any G or Pre-n router they will work at full speed on the internet no probs I have an old Latitude with a 866mhz and a G PCMCIA card...


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    well the speed will depend more so on the wireless laptop card, than on the router.

    most of todays router are rated at 54mbps (mega bits) but in practice they only do about 80% of that. but since there's no company in ireland doing near 30 mbit speeds (at a reasonable price) you should get full speed on your 1mbit line

    get a router from a repituable name linksys, netgear spring to mind.

    may i suggest the linksys WAG54g (it's the one i have) it's a router and adsl modem in one so you can throw away - not literally - your old router.


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    WILKEL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭WILKEL


    Thanks for the info guys - just what I was looking for.


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