Post by Gareth on Jan 26, 2008 1:46:20 GMT
Got one of these today. The idea being so I can use the laptop at Bondhay while I do the disco. Mark's kindly given me the access code.
Couldn't get it to work at first, but after faffing about for a while I managed it.
Edimax EW-7108PCG Wireless 54Mbps PCMCIA Card / Wireless Network 54 Mbps Cardbus Adapter
£9.53 from SVP
Edimax's EW-7108PCg wireless LAN PCMCIA card complies with IEEE802.11g standards and is backward comptiable with IEEE802.11b standards. With a connection speed up to 54Mbps, the EW-7108PCg easily connects your laptop to your wireless network. You can also connect to any public wireless hotspot for Internet access.
Installation and configuration is easy. You can configure the EW-7108PCg by either Windows wireless utilites or Edimax's utilities. The EW-7108PCg supports advanced encryption like WEP, WPA and WPA2 to secure the wireless transmission and with its Turbo Mode feature, it can increase transmission speeds by up to 30% when connecting with other Edimax wireless devices.
Features:
- Complies with IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g products
- Supports Turbo Mode to increase the transmission 30% faster
- Supports WMM (Wireless Multimedia) to increase multimedia data throughput
- High throughput supports multi-media data bandwidth requirement
- Supports 64/128-bit WEP, WPA (TKIP with IEEE 802.1x) and AES functions for high level security
- Increases data security and reliability by Automatic Fallback
- Supports the most popular operating system: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista and Linux
- Supports 32-bit Cardbus interface
- ROHS Compliant
Specifications:
- Standards: IEEE802.11g /b
- Frequency Band: 2.400~2.4835GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical Band)
- Modulation: OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM (11g), BPSK, QPSK, CCK (11b)
- Radio Technology: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
- Data Rate: 54/48/36/24/18/12/11/9/6/5.5/2/1 Mbps auto fallback
- Security: 64/128/256-bit WEP Encryption, WPA ( TKIP, IEEE 802.1x) and AES
- Receive Sensitivity:
+ 54Mbps OFDM, 10% PER, -72dBm
+ 11Mbps CCK, 8% PER, -85dBm
+ 1Mbps BPSK, 8% PER, -93dBm