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| honkybear |
Ethernet Cards and Wifi Cards for Psion 7 and NetbookThere was a website www.digitalkingdoms.com/s7ether/ Which had a list of cards which worked with the Netbook and Series 7. However this website is no more anyone knowing this info would be greatly appreciated. I remember one of these was the Cisco. Hope this creates a bit of discussion. As I think this is the sort of information which is relevant to your forum. Thanks
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| MartinG |
Wasn't aware of that site previously but the one most people quote is the EPOCFAQish (http://www.epocfaq.co.uk/) and specifically you'll be interested in: http://www.epocfaq.co.uk/faqNetworks.htm.
Cheers, Martin PS: Moved this to 'Articles' since it's probably more related to that. |
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| lohtse |
It's not bad EPOCFAQish but is very out dated. How about People here letting others know which network cards they Use???
I use a Avaya Wireless World Card in my netbook and they cost less than £25 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lucent-Orinoco-Avaya-wifi-card-Win-Linux-wardrive_W0QQitemZ5808883878QQcategoryZ45000QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) It works a treat...... WHat about everyone else???? regards Andrew |
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| JonB |
Best card?Personally I use the Buffalo PCMCIA (because the nB doesn't support cardbus) card using the Lucent chipset (so it works with encryption and the NetStat RF program) which also has a low power requirement.Best of all you can pick 'em up on eBay these days for less than £20! I believe this is also the card mentioned in Martins WiFi article so he may be able to provide more technical information but all in all I don't think they come more compatible than this one. Manufacturers datasheet (PDF) http://www.buffalotech.com/wirele...cts/pdf/WLIPCML11GP_datasheet.pdf Anyone know of anything better? |
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| lohtse |
The Avaya I use(mentioned above) supports WEP etc. And from what I can figure is basicaly Very similar to a buffalo card even down to chip sets.
regards Andrew |
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| MartinG |
Re: Best card?
It is and I agree - I think it's the best/most compatible card there is.
Doesn't it have a 'bulge' and block the stylus silo however? Martin |
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| lohtse |
Martin your correct. But when I was looking for a wifi card ebay had Buffalos for £60 so whet for the cheaper option. So the bulge as you put it is just a minor and I do mean minor problem. That I am happy to put up with.
regards Andrew |
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| scorpio |
Buffalo bulgeI believe that there were two versions of the Buffalo card, one with and one without a bulge.My card does not have a bulge, and has a model no. of WLI-PCM-L11GP. I got to say that after trying several cards this one is definitely the best I've used. The US Robotics card I had worked, but only if you were sitting next to the access point, and the Cisco one I couldn't get working at all. I paid £25 for the card which I think is money very well spent. Chaz |
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| JonB |
Thats The FellaYeah that's the cards model number.As you say it does have a good range, espectially for the power requirements! |
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| Jonas |
Do you know if the WEP encrytion is supported by the netBook? If so, this would be really interesting for me, cause our WLAN currently uses WEP. So It is possible with this Card to get into the Internet via WEP with 128 bit encryption? Anybody tried it? Thanks, Jonas |
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| JonB |
WEPWEP is supported by the netBook itself it is however down to the chipset as to whether it will work or not. The Lucent chipset used by the Buffalo card does work. |
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