broadband with windows 95

a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?

ta Neil


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I don't think Win95 is capable (I could be wrong). Personally I'd reccomend
a minimum of 98SE for BB

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> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
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> ta Neil
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neil wrote:
> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
>
> ta Neil

Depends what hardware he is using. Some USB modems might not work but if
he has a working NIC in the Win95 machine its just a case of plugging it
into a ADSL router.

Regards


Jon

"neil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
>

It won't work with a USB modem.

If you add an ethernet card (may already be there) into the win95 PC you'll
probably get it working as there is generally no technical reason why it
won't work as long as they buy a combined Modem/Router and use Ethernet
cabling between the PC and the router.

I recently set up a router on ADSL with two 200Mhz Win 95 Laptops as
clients, using PCMCIA Ethernet adapters.

Of course they aren't very fast, it's not ideal, and it won't run every bit
of software you might download, but if the budget is /very/ tight....

Jc.

I have a very old laptop with an NIC card running Win95.
I can plug it into my router which has BB access and normally supports a
Win98SE machine.
The Win95 machine can access the Internet and indeed the other PC.

So the answer is, with an NIC and a router, yes.
If you want to use USB then that is another matter as I don't think that
Win95 supports that - certainly not all the earlier versions.

Chris

"Jon Farmer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:3fc4706b.0@entanet...
> neil wrote:
> > a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> > some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
> >
> > ta Neil
>
> Depends what hardware he is using. Some USB modems might not work but if
> he has a working NIC in the Win95 machine its just a case of plugging it
> into a ADSL router.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Jon
>
>

In article <bq1qil$1tred6$(E-Mail Removed)>, Neil wrote:
> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
>
It's nonsense. If a computer can work with an ethernet connection, it
can be plugged into a router, no matter what operating system it uses.
Many people use Macintosh and Linux computers on broadband.

Your friend probably meant that Win95 can't work with USB, which is
true. (Even Win95SE, which is supposed to work with USB, doesn't do so
very reliably). So don't use a USB modem.

Rod.

In article <bq1qil$1tred6$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?

If it is broadband via a LAN router, there's absolutely no reason at all
he couldn't have broadband.

If it's via USB, he may have issues regarding USB drivers, and may need
OSR 2 IIRC.

Pete.

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On 26 Nov 2003, Roderick Stewart wrote

> In article <bq1qil$1tred6$(E-Mail Removed)>, Neil
> wrote:
>> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
>> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?
>>
> It's nonsense. If a computer can work with an ethernet connection,
> it can be plugged into a router, no matter what operating system
> it uses. Many people use Macintosh and Linux computers on
> broadband.
>
> Your friend probably meant that Win95 can't work with USB, which
> is true. (Even Win95SE, which is supposed to work with USB,
> doesn't do so very reliably). So don't use a USB modem.

FWIW, my experience with USB on Win95B -- the version with USB
supposedly bolted on -- wasn't just unreliable, it was entirely
unworkable.

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In article <bq1qil$1tred6$(E-Mail Removed)>,
neil <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> a friend wants to get broadband he has windows 95
> some one told him he can't have it because win 95 is this true?

As others have said, he just needs an ethernet card and a router. The
USB is a non-starter.

I'm tempted to try to locate an original 4.77MHz PC running DOS and get
it up on the end of a broadband link with KA9Q or Sun's PC-NFS, and
something of similarly archaeological interest running Windows 3.1 and
bolt on one of the third-party TCP stacks likewise. That way we could
stop this sort of FUD at root.

ian

Pete Smith <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: If it's via USB, he may have issues regarding USB drivers, and may need
: OSR 2 IIRC.

Even OSR2 has *VERY LIMITED* USB support - nothing much beyond simple
printers and the like. I failed to get a simple digital camera driver to work
and would hold out not much hope for USB modems!