On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, michael hast wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> >A low end laptop's a good idea for this. I hadn't thought of that
> >before.
> >
> I've got a REALLY old Toshiba Satellite around here somewhere. It
> doesn't have a cd rom and I was going to try to load it with DSL just to
> make it useable, but that proved to be more trouble than it was worth.
> I may try to use it. How much are PCMCIA NIC cards anyhoo? (I'll
> probably be checking ebay before I get a response on this.)
Looks like $8 and up (not counting shipping), but you should count on maybe
>$35 for a good one. Course, I got that number by rectal extraction...
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%28pcmcia+OR+%22pc+card%22%29+%28ethernet+O$
And maybe the effect isn't real, but I suspect that cards that are meant to
be smaller and lower power (no fan in a PCMCIA slot) have worse performance
than PCI/ISA cards (if they had _better_ performance, you'd see PCI/ISA
cards built that way for performance reasons).
> (I'll probably be checking ebay before I get a response on this.)
Oh well.
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