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All USB wifi dongles are rubbish.
Simply not true. They're a perfectly valid solution, especially for people who don't have a spare PCI slot or aren't happy installing a card.
The wifi dongle doesn't need to be the same make as the router, but I've used the Netgear WG111 for years with no issues at all. Use the extension cable so you can position it for the best reception.0 -
^true: am using right now an ozenda usb dongle with a belkin router/modem:)
2nd truth: if u have a laptop, then u have a choice between only usb dongle or pcmcia card (no PCI slot): any qualitative difference?? Doubt it:)BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!
THE KILLERS :cool:
THE PUNISHER :dance: MATURE CHEDDAR ADDICT:cool:0 -
My mate bought a wifi dongle as the intenal wireless card in his laptop just wasnt upto scratch
Its worked flawlessly since:idea:0 -
free4440273 wrote: »
^true: am using right now an ozenda usb dongle with a belkin router/modem:)
2nd truth: if u have a laptop, then u have a choice between only usb dongle or pcmcia card (no PCI slot): any qualitative difference?? Doubt it:)
Not, in fact, a "truth" - if your laptop has no expansion slot (PCI, CardBus or ExpressCard) at all and your only option is a USB2 stick.
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Not, in fact, a "truth" - if your laptop has no expansion slot (PCI, CardBus or ExpressCard) at all and your only option is a USB2 stick.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1302121
Keep digging Mr pine nut:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!
THE KILLERS :cool:
THE PUNISHER :dance: MATURE CHEDDAR ADDICT:cool:0 -
scotsjamie wrote: »its on WEP encryption anyway and its still not working, my desktop is about 3 years old and dont think it has a pci slot, is it difficult to install one without a alot in place or is it possible even.
It does. PCI slots have been around for 15 years. I doubt very much that they're all full.
Dead easy to install. Turn off PC at wall socket to make sure there's no power to the main board but leave it plugged in to ground the case. Take off case, see the long white rectangles, slot card in there, attach to backplate with a screw. Replace lid, screw in antenna to antenna socket, turn on PC, install drivers.0 -
NickMidgley wrote: »Simply not true. They're a perfectly valid solution, especially for people who don't have a spare PCI slot or aren't happy installing a card.
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Doesn't alter the fact they're rubbish. Poor range, poor throughput, lots of issues.0 -
Posting.free4440273 wrote: »^true: am using right now an ozenda usb dongle with a belkin router/modem:)
2nd truth: if u have a laptop, then u have a choice between only usb dongle or pcmcia card (no PCI slot): any qualitative difference?? Doubt it:)
Observation.
Not, in fact, a "truth" - if your laptop has no expansion slot (PCI, CardBus or ExpressCard) at all and your only option is a USB2 stick.
Response.free4440273 wrote: »http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1302121
Keep digging Mr pine nut:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
We are all awaiting with great interest your technical Techie explanation of how those who have laptops with no PCMCIA (nor Cardbus nor ExpressCard, come to that) slot at all, exercise what you claim assertively and unequivocally - as a "truth", no less - to be their option to insert a PCMCIA card into it.
I do hope you will resist the temptation to suggest that it be into the same orifice as that out of which you pontificate.
You should not underestimate the value of demonstrating to everyone in this forum that a person who has posted to it 6,211 times in three years and attracted 3,227 expressions of Thanks in 1,722 posts is, in fact, unpossessed of the capacity for fundamental logical reasoning customarily to be found in a 4 year old child.
(A child of the type who brought everyone to their senses by pointing out that the Emperor being much lauded for his sartorial magnificence was in fact wearing no clothes at all sort-of-thing, if you catch my drift.)
Because people for whom money is tight need to be able to recognise whose advice is trustworthy on here and who is so stupid that theirs isn't.
I am most deeply grateful to you for revealing so publicly into which of these two categories yours falls.
I won't reciprocate your invitation to "keep digging": instead, I urge you to keep preening and revealing yourself to be a frivolous fool.
free4440273 wrote: »
^{I want what she has: five trophy badges
At what financial cost to others?
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Doesn't alter the fact they're rubbish. Poor range, poor throughput, lots of issues.
I've never experienced any of those issues, and I've used a number of dongles (and PCI cards for that matter). I'll stick by my assessment that they're a perfectly viable proposition.
In fact the last time I used a PCI adaptor I had to buy an antenna extension for it so it could pick up a solid signal. Not something I've had to do with USB dongles which usually come with an extension cable.
Our experiences (and definitions of "rubbish") obviously differ on this one!0 -
Careful Nick
Conor is some sort of Deity. Theres NOTHING he doesnt know, and is therefore RIGHT and you MUST be wrong......:idea:0
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