Re: dilemna before buying new Dell laptop




<Rob> wrote in message news:fop502l627u1i8vn6vlhgoj0kqav2km9t5@xxxxxxxxxx
I've got a wireless 802.11b network at home. Everything in my house
had "b" capability except I'm not sure of one laptop (inspiron 600m;
maybe this has b/g capability??). Please correct me if I'm wrong
here.

Ok, so my question is... if I should by a Dell laptop (not sure which
model but less than $900) which has an internal 802.11g card, what are
my options to make it get on my home network? Can I swap it out with
a "b" card? It would be a rather expensive upgrade to swap out all my
computers at home (several plus the router) so I'd rather not do that
unless I have another reason to and besides, if I do that maybe the
"pre N" or eventually the "N" card would be wiser. What are my
options here?

thanks in advance all.


Should be backward compatible and fully capable of 802.11b. No other
upgrades necessary.


Stew


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