Query re notebook adaptors

Hi

I've just bought one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
JTV2/

and Amazon were doing a deal that the router can come with a free
adapter for a laptop. I might get a laptop sometime down the road, but
currently I have an extra PC I'd like to connect up. Is there such a
device as a USB to laptop port convertor so that I can use the laptop
wireless adapter on a PC?

Otherwise the cheapest PC adaptor I've seen is this one £66.
http://www.misco.co.uk/productinform...7~/product.htm

thanks

Craig

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"Craig Cockburn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I've just bought one of these
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
> JTV2/
>
> and Amazon were doing a deal that the router can come with a free adapter
> for a laptop. I might get a laptop sometime down the road, but currently I
> have an extra PC I'd like to connect up. Is there such a device as a USB
> to laptop port convertor so that I can use the laptop wireless adapter on
> a PC?
>
> Otherwise the cheapest PC adaptor I've seen is this one £66.
> http://www.misco.co.uk/productinform...7~/product.htm
>
> thanks
>
> Craig

All lap tops now come with built in wireless connectors So you might have
been better to get the DG 834 g with the free WG 111 USB adaptor at least
just get a USB wireless adaptor

If you mean that you have cardbus type wireless adaptor then this might
help.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-PCI-...QQcmdZViewItem

Just search eBay for

"PCI PCMCIA Cardbus Adapter"

I hope this answers your problem.

Simon

Craig Cockburn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just bought one of these
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
> JTV2/
>
> and Amazon were doing a deal that the router can come with a free
> adapter for a laptop. I might get a laptop sometime down the road, but
> currently I have an extra PC I'd like to connect up. Is there such a
> device as a USB to laptop port convertor so that I can use the laptop
> wireless adapter on a PC?
>
> Otherwise the cheapest PC adaptor I've seen is this one £66.
> http://www.misco.co.uk/productinform...7~/product.htm
>
> thanks
>
> Craig
>

Craig Cockburn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just bought one of these
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
> JTV2/
>
> and Amazon were doing a deal that the router can come with a free
> adapter for a laptop. I might get a laptop sometime down the road, but
> currently I have an extra PC I'd like to connect up. Is there such a
> device as a USB to laptop port convertor so that I can use the laptop
> wireless adapter on a PC?

If you are talking about a PC card (credit-card sized lump that slides
into a slot in the side of your laptop), there are unlikely to ever be
USB interfaces for such things, as PC Cards are hot-pluggable variations
on the PCI bus. (Not to be confused with PC-card USB interfaces, which
do exist, because they work the other way).
There are, however, PCI Carbus interfaces, which will make a laptop
PC-card slot available on a desktop. This is, as is the way of such
things, at the not-very-accessible rear of the PC.
>
> Otherwise the cheapest PC adaptor I've seen is this one £66.
> http://www.misco.co.uk/productinform...7~/product.htm

Then you're not looking in the right place.

You can get USB wireless adapters for about twenty pounds; look at, for
instance, http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...html?NOV-54USB

If these are the ones novatech were shipping a while back, (as their
value branded stuff changes depending on what they can get), they come
with a short stiff USB A-A extension which allows you to orient the
antenna to suit your environment, although there is no reason why you
could not stick the thing on the end of a USB extension cable

In message <ee1rk9$slr$1$(E-Mail Removed)>, Simon Smith
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>If you mean that you have cardbus type wireless adaptor then this might
>help.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-PCI-...Adapter-UK-Sel
>ler_W0QQitemZ230027553037QQihZ013QQcategoryZ10120 6QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ
>1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>Just search eBay for
>
>"PCI PCMCIA Cardbus Adapter"
>
Thanks, that should do it. There's others for <£8 including postage.
--
Craig Cockburn ("coburn"). M.Sc., CITP, CEng
Owner, http://www.siliconglen.com/
Home to the first online guide to Scotland, founded 1994.
Scottish blog, FAQ, weddings, website design, stop spam and more!

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:43:51 +0100, Craig Cockburn wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've just bought one of these
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
> JTV2/

Personal opinion, USB adaptors are pretty poor, performance wise. I would
always go for a pcmcia/pc card adaptor. They are designed better.


Dave

gort wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:43:51 +0100, Craig Cockburn wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've just bought one of these
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-DG83...uter/dp/B000G3
>> JTV2/
>
> Personal opinion, USB adaptors are pretty poor, performance wise. I
> would always go for a pcmcia/pc card adaptor. They are designed
> better.
>
Only problem is where the ariel is situated, shielded behind a
big(ish) metal box, which in itself is also throwing various rf
signals....

If I had to chose I'm afraid I would go for USB, more flexibility, the
only thing which might convince me not is by using a wifi card with a
detachable ariel & then buying a seperate ariel which I could install
in a better location, which you can do easily enough with a USB dongle
anyway (as long as you've go USB2 you shouldn't see any difference &
it would be cheaper)...

>> Personal opinion, USB adaptors are pretty poor, performance wise. I
>> would always go for a pcmcia/pc card adaptor. They are designed
>> better.
>>
> Only problem is where the ariel is situated, shielded behind a
> big(ish) metal box, which in itself is also throwing various rf
> signals....
>
> If I had to chose I'm afraid I would go for USB, more flexibility, the
> only thing which might convince me not is by using a wifi card with a
> detachable ariel & then buying a seperate ariel which I could install
> in a better location, which you can do easily enough with a USB dongle
> anyway (as long as you've go USB2 you shouldn't see any difference &
> it would be cheaper)...

Well we are going to differ over this, you can only go on experience.

Dave

gort wrote:
>>> Personal opinion, USB adaptors are pretty poor, performance wise.
>>> I
>>> would always go for a pcmcia/pc card adaptor. They are designed
>>> better.
>>>
>> Only problem is where the ariel is situated, shielded behind a
>> big(ish) metal box, which in itself is also throwing various rf
>> signals....
>>
>> If I had to chose I'm afraid I would go for USB, more flexibility,
>> the only thing which might convince me not is by using a wifi card
>> with a detachable ariel & then buying a seperate ariel which I
>> could
>> install in a better location, which you can do easily enough with a
>> USB dongle anyway (as long as you've go USB2 you shouldn't see any
>> difference & it would be cheaper)...
>
> Well we are going to differ over this, you can only go on
> experience.
>
> Dave

To true, at last someone who accept that what works for himself
doesn't neccesarily for others. Hat off to you young man...

> To true, at last someone who accept that what works for himself
> doesn't neccesarily for others. Hat off to you young man...

LOL, 52 years going on 16... I wish !!!

Dave