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Adaptec USB2 Connect Card for Notebook 2 Port
Adaptec (
14 May, 2003 )
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High Speed USB is here  |
Ill make a simple case. You have a USB 2.0 CD Writer. You can burn a CD-R in ~5 Minutes.With a USB 1.1 CD Writer, you are looking at ~20 Minutes. Want to transfer 800mb of data using a USB Storage Device? ~1 Minute or ~13 with 1.1 This product is simple, well supported with PDF manuals and USB management Software to aid any (unlikly) trouble shooting, and best of all, its Adaptec. If you ever bought an Internal PCI card for SCSI or EIDE in the past, you know the best brand is Adapatec. Most laptops do NOT support powering devices direct from USB for obvious reasons, but for <£5 extra you can buy an AC/DC adaptor in your local electrical store and power the card and therefore the devices if required. If you have USB 2.0 Products, but only USB 1.1 on your laptop, you need this... Not for your mouse, but Storage devices, high speed scanners and the like.
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I fitted this to my laptop and the associated router to my new NTL broadband modem when my broadband was installed on Saturday. It took all of 5 minutes and I now have wireless broadband which is simply brilliant. The set up of the laptop card was simplicity itself - just plug it in and away you go. You need to connect up the router (I used the Linksys Wireless-G Router - also from Amazon) to the modem first. The longest part of the exercise was reinstalling Norton Internet Security (which you should uninstall before any broadband installations) - but within 5 mins of reinstalling it, it prevented some hacker from Berlin (Norton can tell you where the attack is from) hacking my new system. I am not a techy, just an average user, but this product is brilliant and simplicity itself. Very strongly recommended: 5-star.
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Seamless & powerful integration with WinXP |
There is really little to say about this little card other than it has workhorse performance and is really easy to set up. I can happily report Ive encountered no such problems with the Linksys kit - it just works superbly. Ok, they are not the cheapest but they are the biggest and best by a country mile. The few quid extra is worth it. Linksys are a division of Cisco - says it all really. My relatively simple setup is a hardwired broadband desktop into which I put the Linksys 54G PCI card. I then placed the PCMCIA 54G cards into two laptops. Less than a dozen mouse-clicks later I had a fully WEP enabled wireless home network; sharing broadband internet, folders and a printer. Scary or what! Total setup time (including fitting the PCI card): 1 hour. Linksys also have a superb website and support infrastructure. I really knew very little about networking when I bought these items (actually I still dont) but thankfully they are painless to implement and do the job well.
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