Same or Different? Orinoco/Dell TrueMobile/Lucent Technologies PCMCIA wireless cards

[gizmoadria]

Hello there everyone. I am looking to aquire a good wireless card for my laptop.

From reading and such, it seems many people say the Dell TrueMobile 1150 is a rebranded Orinoco.

What if the Dell TrueMobile says "Lucent Technologies"? Is that still the same or different?

Also, is Orinoco really a sub company of Lucent so the cards are basically the same?

How can I, as a buy, be able to tell the difference? Model numbers?


Thank you for your help!
Adria aka giz
Wireless Newbie

 

[JackMDS]

The Wireless Client Cards known as Orinoco are based on a PCMCIA chipset designed and first constructed by Lucent Technology.

Then it was called. AVAYA.

Then it was sold to Agere.

Now it owned by Proxim.

As a result you will see Orinoco under all of the above names (could be even more if I forgot one).

They are the same products based on the original Lucent Chipset.

 

[gizmoadria]

Thank you JackMDS

My concern is that I've been looking on Ebay and many people selling the Dell TrueMobile 1150 tout that is has the Orinoco chipset -rebranded.

I saw and bidded on one but am now concerned because the person listed the item as having a Lucent chipset.

I want to make sure I am getting a card with really good signal and range.

 

[BG4533]

The current cards are Orinoco Golds. Dell has pretty good deals on them right now. You may want to check the Hot Deals forum.

Brian

 

[eliteorange]

i wasnt sure if the new dell still use those orinoco cards

but i picked up a orinoco gold for 51 bux @ ecost.com which is about the price u get off ebay