How to tell if my notebook has wireless networking capabil..

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"JJ" <mrjjohnson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In the control panel it has under wireless link: IrDA Fast Infrared port.
> Not what I'm looking for to share my desktop internet connection and
> printer?
>
Thats an infrared port, used for sending small files to other laptops and
PDA's.

You need either an 802.11x adapter or a bluetooth system.

hamman

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Hi there, no expert on wireless networking but here goes...

Most laptops have Infrared ports - but these are very slow indeed - the
original infrared were 9600bps - very very slow. I am not sure how much
faster FAST infrared is but I would suspect not fast enough for print
jobs or a broadband type internet connection. Somebody will correct me
if I'm wrong.

What you need is a proper wireless networking technology - such as Wi-Fi
or Bluetooth. You can get either USB2 or PCMCIA wireless network
transmitters for the laptop and use a Boradband/Ethernet wireless router
base station (which is connected to your PC via a standard cat-5 cable -
so your PC needs an ethernet network card) to make the connection
between the two machines.

As I say, I'm no expert but have a look at something along the lines of:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obido [...] s_2//202-6
977439-6845428

cheaper ones available - but have personal experience with Netgear kit
and it seems pretty good.

HTH a bit - hopefully others will contribute to the thread.

Steve

In message <2e139679.0409011154.23fb2587@posting.google.com>, JJ
<mrjjohnson@hotmail.com> writes
>In the control panel it has under wireless link: IrDA Fast Infrared port.
>Not what I'm looking for to share my desktop internet connection and printer?
>
>Thanks all and sorry for the dumb question ;-)

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Steve