Tablet or small laptop with ethernet/hardwire?

avstar

Hi All, can anyone recommend (or even know if they exist!) a tablet or small light laptop/netbook that has ethernet cable capabilities please?

I need to be able to hardwire to a network rather than wifi/3G type shenanigans.
Thanks

securityguy

avstar wrote: »

Hi All, can anyone recommend (or even know if they exist!) a tablet or small light laptop/netbook that has ethernet cable capabilities please?

I need to be able to hardwire to a network rather than wifi/3G type shenanigans.
Thanks

USB to Ethernet adapters for laptops are dirt cheap, and supported by every operating system. They're a bit trickier if you want GigE, but the device you're talking about will be perfectly happy with 100BaseT.

They might be available for Android tablets. They certainly aren't available for iOS. However, you could simply use a Wifi access point (any old one you have lying around will do) and get onto the network that way.

avstar

Cheers, been tasked to find something suitable for work where wifi is practically non existant and way too slow for what I need to do. I'll check out the USB to ethernet cable and see if that will work on a tablet/netbook. Cheers

NiftyDigits

avstar wrote: »

Cheers, been tasked to find something suitable for work where wifi is practically non existant and way too slow for what I need to do. I'll check out the USB to ethernet cable and see if that will work on a tablet/netbook. Cheers

or you can just get a common or garden MSI Wind U180 Netbook £102.59
It has a normal Ethernet connection as well as Wireless, as do most of them.
If you are a girl, you can go for the white with a pink lid option here £89.99

paddyrg

If you've got an ethernet point, you can make a wireless point - adapters are dirt common and cheap, just make sure you add a decent password to avoid sharing your network with the neighbours.