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Re: Wireless USB recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyons, Andrew H)
Fri Jan 28 10:33:56 2011
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:32:45 -0500
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From: "Lyons, Andrew H" <ALyons1@uamail.albany.edu>
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Todd,
I picked up a Netgear WG111 v2 USB wireless NIC for my own use several years back and it still works great (after updating the in-box driver, which was not XP logo tested...). Since then, the driver has apparently been upgraded significantly, including support for Windows (32/64) and Macintosh (PPC/Intel). There is also a newer version of the product.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/713
Andrew
ITS Client Support Services
University at Albany
518-442-3700
-----Original Message-----
From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall K. Kouns
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:58 AM
To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: Wireless USB recommendation
We recently had a desktop user (ADMIN FACULTY) that had hip surgery in the middle of a major grant applicaton. She is our grant administrator and could not be missing in action for 6 weeks. We moved her computer to her house to discover that her cable modem was 2 rooms away.... ran to Walmart and picked up a $29 Belkin USB 802.11b/g/n adapter that worked like a champ. compatible with xp, vista, 7 (32 and 64 bit).
When she came back to work the device is now used for testing student machines as you suggested...
it is The belkin Basic # F7D1101
Randy Kouns
Manager User Services
Earlham College
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Thomas" <todd.thomas@UNI.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:37:35 AM
Subject: Wireless USB recommendation
Does anyone have a good wireless USB NIC recommendation?
We're looking for something we could plug into student computers for trouble-shooting wireless issues as well as something to tell students to purchase (if their NIC doesn't work). A good combo of cost and performance, as well as support for 64-bit Windows 7 is required.
Thanks!
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