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Re: Wireless USB recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Armour, Thomas)
Fri Jan 28 11:14:54 2011
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:01:27 +0000
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I use the Netgear wg111 also ... Works good with VM's to test wireless
configurations. The USB was the only way I could figure out how to get
wireless on a VM.
Tom Armour
University Technology Services
Emory University
On 1/28/11 10:32 AM, "Lyons, Andrew H" <ALyons1@uamail.albany.edu> wrote:
>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 There is also a newer version of the product.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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>Todd Thomas, Residential Network Specialist University of Northern Iowa
>http://www.resnet.uni.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<><~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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