My laptop is an Acer aspire 1353LM (with Windows XP). I bought it in february 2004. I am going to move in to a place where there is wireless Internet connection. My laptop is not compatible with this kind of conncetion. Do you how it is possible to make it compatible? inserting a card? How much expensive could be?
Is the wireless Internet connection slower than the normal one? Can you use skype with that?
Thank you for your answers.
Skype works very nicely with WiFi internet connections. WiFi is often faster than the local connection to the internet.
You would want to buy either a card to put in the PCMCIA/Cardbus slot, or a "dongle" to plug in to your USB port. Etiher one should work well if the WiFi access point is nearby. An external USB adapter might give a little more range, but isn't as portable.
card:
There are faster and longer-range products available, if you know exactly what network you will be connecting to.
Ok, thank you a lot. So as far as I have understood any laptop can work with wirless internet connection, for instance by an external USB adapter , isnt' it?
snipped-for-privacy@XReXXLapto.usenet.us.com wrote:
On 25 Jun 2006 06:56:41 -0700, "Moebius" wrote in :
Yes, *if* the OS supports both USB and a driver for the USB adapter.
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