Which type of Network card for notebook? i'm confused...

[gredodenda]

Ok, I need to buy a network card for notebook that is 10/100 and I saw different types of cards.

Linksys 10/100 PC Card
Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA card
Linksys 10/100 CardBus PC Card

What is difference between PC card and PCMCIA card??? What is CardBus card???
There are 16-bit card and 32-bit card, which one is better?? Is it faster if its 32-bit??

Anything I should know about notebook network card, please teach me....thanks a million!!

Thanks

 

[Eug]

The first two should be the same, and MAY be the same as the third one.

PC Card is short for PCMCIA Card. Cardbus is a 32-bit PC Card. It might be faster in theory than a 16-bit card, but the 16-bit cards will work fine. If your laptop is very old, it will not support Cardbus.

I actually bought a 16-bit card for my brand new laptop because the Linky PC Card that I got supports not only 10/100 Ethernet, but 1 Mbps HomePNA as well.

Anyways, here are all the many kinds of Linky PCMCIA Ethernet PCMCIA cards.

 

[Ladi]

If you don't need both PCMCIA slots in your notebook, invest in one of the 'integrated'/'dongle-less' cards (such as the ones Xircom makes)...They cost slightly more, but you won't have issues with breaking/losing the "dongle" that attaches to normal single PCMCIA-cards -- which can also break the connector on the card itself occasionally. I believe there are also single-slot versions of these cards, but they stick out of the side of your notebook.

~Ladi