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Broadband and Windows 95
04-06-2008 7:10 PM
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A charity with which I work needs a laptop to be able to participate in a specialist forum - just like this one, so ntohing complex, or technically demanding or bandwidth hungry.
I have an old Windows 95 laptop which would be adequate for simple dial-up purposes, but I am not sure whether it would work with a wireless router. Does anyone have any experience of that ? Even if it were slow, would it work at all ? I would have to buy a PCMCIA wireless card for it, but I have seen those on Ebay for just a couple of quid new, because they are basically redundant these days.
So any experience of Windows 95 (if you can remember those days) would be appreciated. I don't want to waste time giving them this old laptop if it is not going to work. But in principle, I don't really see why it should not. I have tried it with broadband using a PCMCIA network card and it works well, but obviously not yet with a wireless card. So the question relates only to the wireless side of things.
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04-06-2008 7:25 PM
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I've got an old laptop that does work wirelessly. I believe it was initially Windows 98 (not 95) but I've updated it to ME.
The PCMCIA wireless card I use is a Cisco Aironet 350 (AIR-PCM352) and it only connects via 802.11b with WEP. I look after this very carefully as it took some finding.
I hope that gives you a few clues.
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04-06-2008 7:43 PM
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You will have a better chance with a PCMCIA Ethernet card than a wireless card in terms of drivers but even so this may still be a problem as many manufacturers no longer have Win95 drivers on their website.
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04-06-2008 7:44 PM
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04-06-2008 7:50 PM
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04-06-2008 11:32 PM
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05-06-2008 12:23 AM
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05-06-2008 9:40 AM
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05-06-2008 11:12 AM
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2000 might be pushing your luck a bit.
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05-06-2008 11:47 AM
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