is this pc card OK for laptop wireless?

Newbie to wireless here.

I have an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B LAN pc card that came with a laptop I
just got. Supposedly it gives me wireless roaming capability in hooking up
with hotspots.

Is this a good card for giving my laptop wireless capability in hooking up
with hot spots while roaming? The reason I ask is that trying to research
the card leads me to believe it's for commercial networking apps.

rb wrote:
> Newbie to wireless here.
>
> I have an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B LAN pc card that came with a laptop I
> just got. Supposedly it gives me wireless roaming capability in hooking up
> with hotspots.
>
> Is this a good card for giving my laptop wireless capability in hooking up
> with hot spots while roaming? The reason I ask is that trying to research
> the card leads me to believe it's for commercial networking apps.

Are you sure you mean roaming and keeping a seamless connection or just the
ability to re-connect with a new connection to different hotspots as you
get in range?

rb <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B LAN pc card that came with a laptop I
> just got. Supposedly it gives me wireless roaming capability in hooking up
> with hotspots.

> Is this a good card for giving my laptop wireless capability in hooking up
> with hot spots while roaming? The reason I ask is that trying to research
> the card leads me to believe it's for commercial networking apps.

That's an old 16 bit 802.11b card that's no longer manufactured.
But, it will probably work just fine at any of the public hotspots.
You could just carry the laptop in to a starbucks that has wireless service
and open a browser. It should connect and give you a login page.
http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/


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}}} or just the
ability to re-connect with a new connection to different hotspots as you
get in range? {{{

Re-connecting with new hotspots when i'm around those is what was meant.
Thanks.

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:30:44 GMT, DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> wrote:
: rb wrote:
: > Newbie to wireless here.
: >
: > I have an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B LAN pc card that came with a laptop I
: > just got. Supposedly it gives me wireless roaming capability in hooking up
: > with hotspots.
: >
: > Is this a good card for giving my laptop wireless capability in hooking up
: > with hot spots while roaming? The reason I ask is that trying to research
: > the card leads me to believe it's for commercial networking apps.
:
: Are you sure you mean roaming and keeping a seamless connection or just the
: ability to re-connect with a new connection to different hotspots as you
: get in range?

If it's like the newer Intel cards, it means that it will automatically switch
to a stronger access point on the same SSID if one comes into range. I.e., I
believe it's the first of your two stated possibilities, which appears to
contradict the original poster's understanding as he expressed it in another
follow-up. (Any card can be made to find another hotspot if you lose your
connection, assuming you're indifferent to the SSID.) Of course, if there are
RADIUS servers involved in this handoff, they've got to be willing to play
ball. But public hotspots don't normally use RADIUS servers.

Be sure to visit the Intel site and download the latest driver (which is only
about a month old), including the "PROset" supplicant. PROset should let you
set the card's propensity to roam. Notice that this is something the Windows
"WZC" supplicant does *not* let you do.

I assume we're talking Windows XP. Use anything older, and you're on your own.

Bob