Thread: setting up wireless access - minimum spec
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Old 03-05-2005, 12:06   #4
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Re: setting up wireless access - minimum spec
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Originally Posted by loftus
My plan is to connect a wireless router to the CM. I was planning to usa a USB adaptor to connect the PC then came across the ethernet bridge, which appears to be used mainly for gaming consoles. I was wondering if I could plug the ethernet bridge into my existing ethernet connection rather than using the USB adaptor.
That would work well, they are usually used for gaming consoles as you cannot crack a gaming console open and plug a wireless NIC into it, so it connects the ethernet socket on the console to a wireless ethernet. This is what you want to do so that would be all fine and dandy. Others here have said the linksys one works well. This also gives you room to move the aerial around to get a better signal, so would be a good idea all round.

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Originally Posted by loftus
Will I be able to connect up the laptop with the existing memory?

Ta
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/datasheet/wpc54g_v2-ds-30922.pdf

Looks unlikely - this says 64Mb, I would imagine that a PCIMICA card will be less resource hungry than a wireless USB so if you did this your swap file would bin in use a lot.
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