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

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gredodenda

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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

 
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.
 
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
 
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