Re: Wireless on slow Pentium laptop?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:01:39 +0000, Donald G. Davis wrote:

> I'm beginning to suspect that the 160 Mhz processor is simply not
> fast enough to handle wireless Internet. Can anyone here confirm or
> refute that? Are any USB or cardbus wireless adapter models known to be
> able to make functional Internet connections on computers like this?

I don't think processor speed is an issue at all, but a machine of this
vintage may not support a cardbus pcmcia card and the USB support may not
be compatible either. Check the specs on your adapters and the Dell site
for the specs for the laptop.

As viewed from alt.internet.wireless, mr.b wrote:

>Donald G. Davis wrote:
>>I'm beginning to suspect that the 160 Mhz processor is simply not
>>fast enough to handle wireless Internet. Can anyone here confirm
>>or refute that? Are any USB or cardbus wireless adapter models
>>known to be able to make functional Internet connections on
>>computers like this?

>I don't think processor speed is an issue at all, but a machine of
>this vintage may not support a cardbus pcmcia card and the USB
>support may not be compatible either. Check the specs on your
>adapters and the Dell site for the specs for the laptop.

I used to run wireless on a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 133 with
Win98SE running on 48mb of RAM using a D-Link 802.11b USB adapter.

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:40:15 -0800, emtech wrote:

> I used to run wireless on a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 133 with Win98SE
> running on 48mb of RAM using a D-Link 802.11b USB adapter.

so the OP should buy a Toshiba Satellite??? Evidently your hardware
worked.

As viewed from alt.internet.wireless, mr.b wrote:

>emtech wrote:
>>I used to run wireless on a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 133 with
>>Win98SE running on 48mb of RAM using a D-Link 802.11b USB adapter.

>so the OP should buy a Toshiba Satellite???

Not necessarily. That's just what I happened to have at the time.

>Evidently your hardware worked.

Yes it did.