3Com USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter $4.99

[msn]

3Com USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

www.TigerDirect.com

Item # C155-1100
WAS $29.99
NOW $4.99

 

[Souka]

shipping cost?

 

[reicherb]

bump for a good deal depending on shipping.

 

[Valhalla1]

nice! I had to buy one of these several years ago, we had an old PC in the office that was a proprietary packard Bell P-133 with no expansion slots and no onboard ethernet... USB ports worked though, so this was the only way would could network it. USB adapters had just come out and we paid $79 for it! :Q

$5 is a great deal

 

[msn]

What am I, Fedex?

Depends on where you are, and how many you buy.

One thing is maybe $8 - $9 and half a dozen maybe only $12

 

[loudOne]

Shipping for one of these is $8 for me (to California).

Is $13.00 shipped for one of these a good deal?

loudOne

Edit: Will these work in Windows XP? Anybody know?

 

[Freejack2]

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No guarantee this will work with WindowsXP

 

[ScAndal]

Woot! got 2 for $20.00 shipped. Will work great for my two soon to be audreys!

Thanks!

ScAndal

 

[msn]

Woah! Careful - one of the Fat Boys says this is a "B" model, and only the "A" works with Audrey - while I was told any 3Com adapter will do the job. Anyone have a definitive answer?

 

[PicknGrin]

What (or who? ;-) is Audrey? new CPU or something?

 

[dlaw]

<<Woah! Careful - one of the Fat Boys says this is a "B" model, and only the "A" works with Audrey - while I was told any 3Com adapter will do the job. Anyone have a definitive answer? >>

What you said made no sense to me.

Fat Boys? B? A? Audrey?

 

[dlaw]

Any reasons not buying this? Buying 10 is only the price of the one LinkSys that I have.

Edit: Does it include the cable between the device and the network cable? It didn't show in the pic.

 

[unsped]

note, this is the exact same housing as peracom usb ethernet adapters.

also look at
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=C184-1010

and apparently some linksys's show up as peracom's ... so they could all be the same thing.

 

[msn]

Fat Boys = One of the "boys" over at Fat Wallet

Audrey = a bloated color Palm used as an internet appliance produced by 3Com but now discontinued

A / B = Part numbers 3C460A / 3C460B

 

[msn]

Works with PlayStation 2, by the way.

 

[wasssup]

thanks, i needed these...ordered 4, shipping was $10.54 to NJ (there should be some kind of law against charging double the actual cost of shipping)

good deal nonetheless

 

[RobsTV]

<< Any reasons not buying this? Buying 10 is only the price of the one LinkSys that I have.

Edit: Does it include the cable between the device and the network cable? It didn't show in the pic. >>



Only two possible reasons to avoid.
1. that needs no explanation. TigerDirect.
2. 10/100 "USB". Testing shows that these things never approach even 10BT speeds,
due to USB limitation of 12Mbits/s "MAX", and in reality about 6Mbits to 8Mbits.

But, they are nice to use for a quick, temporary hookup, or for connecting to DSL modem's.
I use mine with customers PC's for quick connection to LAN and Internet DSL, without having to open up PC.
For a normal LAN, too slow for everyday heavy file transfers. Nice temporary backup though.

 

[Kaieye]

OOS!

 

[TimBear]

This item is Windows XP compatible. See:

http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/details.asp?ItemID=31790

Tim

 

[salfter]

<< Any reasons not buying this? Buying 10 is only the price of the one LinkSys that I have. >>



1) USB is limited to 12 Mbps, so you won't get anywhere near the 100 Mbps that Fast Ethernet can
deliver. You almost have to wonder why 3Com bothered with adding Fast Ethernet capability.

2) With USB as processor-hungry an interface as it is, expect your computer to bog down a bit when
you have network traffic. If you have a PCI slot to spare, I suspect that even a cheap RTL8139-based
NIC would be better.

 

[TimBear]

UPDATE:

It does include the cable ( I got my order!)

Still in stock as of 4:00 PM CDT, May 9th

Tim

 

[TimBear]

This item DOES work with Windows XP. The driver is included with Windows XP and no driver disk or download is required.

Tim

 

[PicknGrin]

This is a pretty groovy little adapter...I got 2...and they shipped QUICKLY....just got 'em yesterday. Very easy to install.

 

[tinkuman]

Can this be used to connect a printer to an ethernet network?

TIA

 

[tinkuman]

^^^ bump, hoping for an answer