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Re: Installing U.S. Robotics USR5410 in XP - Partial Solution

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From: Tony Field
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:59
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"* * Chas" <dnafutz@aol.spam.com> wrote in message
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> It's not a matter of power savings. The system is a PIII 500 240x with
> 192MB of memory running XP SP2 so it's not real powerful but it works
> fine for what I'm using it for (ACT!, Street Atlas, Excel, Word and the
> internet). I don't want a wireless card antenna hanging out of it all
> the time for the 1 or 2 times a week that I may use it.

One last thought. You could get a wireless bridge. Something that connects
to the Ethernet port. The wireless bridge is a self contained unit. OK this
would be another investment, but it would not take any power to ruin the
wireless only the ethernet port which is probably fairly low.

Tony
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