From: Shawn R. Lin (slin01_at_mail.orion.org)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 21:40:54 EDT
David Reid wrote:
>
> I need to get a NIC for my TP but not sure what to get I'm looking a the
> following here in a pcConnection catalog but don't understand the
> differences.
>
> Linksys with integrated RJ45 port
>
> EtherFast 10/100 Integrated PC Card 16bit
> EtherFast 10/100 Integrated CardBus PC Card
> EtherFast 10/100 PCMCIA PC Card 16bit
> EtherFast 10/100 CardBus PC Card 32bit
>
> Perhaps the last two simply don't have the integrated connection for the
> RJ45. Anyway, which card is desireable? I don't have a network at home
> yet, but have a couple of work locations that I need to be able to "hook up"
> to. Standard MS Windows networks.
>From my understanding, there are 2 standards of PCMCIA. One is 16-bit,
the other is 32-bit which is newer and is called "CardBus". They fit
into the same PCMCIA slots, but older laptops don't support the 32-bit
Cardbus cards. I don't know what the integrated means, but the CardBus
is preferable, so whichever one is Cardbus is the one I'd get.
Integrated might mean it has a popout RJ45 port instead of a dongle.
Shawn
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