USB radio for older machine?

Anyone give me a link or model number for a good usb adapter
that works on W98SE?

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:39:26 +0000 (UTC), gigi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Anyone give me a link or model number for a good usb adapter
> that works on W98SE?

I recall using Orinoco adapter, both PCMCIA and also USB. They were only
802.11b 10Mb/s, but that should be fine just for Internet use. They are
now available for pennies on Ebay etc. Eg:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Orinoco-USB-Clie...3%3A1|294%3A50

They only had WEP encryption and I believe the Silver version could only do
5 character WEP while Gold could do 13 characters, but there was also
hacking software around to re-flash the Silver version into Gold.

Advice on installation: http://tinyurl.com/aeyutu

Tony




http://www.whitman.edu/content/wcts/...(windows-98/me)

Good luck.

Tony

"gigi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Anyone give me a link or model number for a good usb adapter
> that works on W98SE?

How old is is this older machine?

If it is old enough to have only USB1.1, you are going to have to get a
USB2.0 card in addition to the dongle. USB1.1 would be too much of a
bottleneck.

Also, like Anthony alread said, getting Win98 to support WPA requires doing
cartwheels.

Unless you are talking about laptop that you plan to mobile, I would suggest
using a wireless-ethernet bridge versus using a wireless USB dongle. Since
the bridge is external stand-alone hardware, it wouldn't require use of any
this older computer's already limited resources. Bridges are also very
handy to have since they are so convienent. They provide wireless
connectivity for anything that uses ethernet, whether it be a computer or a
device.

I bought a couple of these ($30 each) and they work very well. They support
not only WPA, but WPA2 as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833180035

"bc20" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "gigi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:gp9i3d$nk9$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Anyone give me a link or model number for a good usb adapter
>> that works on W98SE?
>
> How old is is this older machine?
>
> If it is old enough to have only USB1.1, you are going to have to get a
> USB2.0 card in addition to the dongle. USB1.1 would be too much of a
> bottleneck.
>
> Also, like Anthony alread said, getting Win98 to support WPA requires
> doing cartwheels.
>
> Unless you are talking about laptop that you plan to mobile, I would
> suggest using a wireless-ethernet bridge versus using a wireless USB
> dongle. Since the bridge is external stand-alone hardware, it wouldn't
> require use of any this older computer's already limited resources.
> Bridges are also very handy to have since they are so convienent. They
> provide wireless connectivity for anything that uses ethernet, whether it
> be a computer or a device.
>
> I bought a couple of these ($30 each) and they work very well. They
> support not only WPA, but WPA2 as well.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833180035
>

Oh, the product description on this device is "wireless LAN extender" simply
because two modes it supports (in addition to "AP Mode" and "AP Client
Mode") are "repeater" and "WDS".

"AP Client Mode" = "Wireless-Ethernet Bridge".