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Anonymous   11-25-2004 at 12:35:06 PM

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I have a NetGear 802.11b wireless router but a laptop with a 802.3b card.
Will it work? I try to read the info but everything says I need
compatability accross the network. Is the 802.11b router backward
compatable, albeit a drop in speed, with the 802.3b card?

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Jack   11-25-2004 at 11:09:45 PM
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Hi
May be this can Help.
Wireless hardware: http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Hardware.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).



"Tony Warburton" <Antony_Warburton@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a NetGear 802.11b wireless router but a laptop with a 802.3b card.
> Will it work? I try to read the info but everything says I need
> compatability accross the network. Is the 802.11b router backward
> compatable, albeit a drop in speed, with the 802.3b card?
>
>
>

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Anonymous   11-25-2004 at 08:27:01 PM
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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

 

"Tony Warburton" wrote:
> I have a NetGear 802.11b wireless router but a laptop with a 802.3b card.
> Will it work? I try to read the info but everything says I need
> compatability accross the network. Is the 802.11b router backward
> compatable, albeit a drop in speed, with the 802.3b card?

802.3b is a wired ethernet thru a broadband cable :
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/go [...] /ieee.html
Probably you're confused...

--PA

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