WIreless help

I have a small PC with no PCMCIA slots and no expansion slots. It has
USB, Firewire, and 10/100 LAN jacks, though.

I need to connect this to my network, but I don't have a wired connection
available. So, what's the best wireless alternative? I have an older wireless
access point, so what I need is either a USB wireless or firewire wireless
something at the PC, but I don't know what hardware is well supported.

Any advice, etc. is welcome.

-Dondo

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Captain Dondo <captain@thebigsandbox.com> wrote:
> I have a small PC with no PCMCIA slots and no expansion slots. It has
> USB, Firewire, and 10/100 LAN jacks, though.
>
> I need to connect this to my network, but I don't have a wired connection
> available. So, what's the best wireless alternative? I have an older wireless
> access point, so what I need is either a USB wireless or firewire wireless
> something at the PC, but I don't know what hardware is well supported.

Your best bet, if your ethernet works, is an ethernet wireless bridge or
wireless AP that can act as AP client (both are likely about the same
price). You might check the Wireless forum and various hardware forums at
http://www.broadbandreports.com/ for info and recommendations.

I only have experience with SMC wireless router (unresolved
firmware/hardware problems, so they discontinued that model) and Linksys
WAP11 (took awhile for them to update flaky firmware, but works well now).

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