- USB Card question
- Posted by Tom on April 15th, 2005
Hello guys,
I am going to install bt broadband internet on a friends computer, it's a
fairly old system running windows 98 originally but she upgraded to XP which
has slowed it down considerably. The problem is that broadband needs a USB
port and the computer doesn't have one, it does have 1 PCI slot though on
the motherboard so I thought of buying a USB card for the PCI slot. Do you
think the USB ports would work with a system this old? I'd hate to waste
her money buying one in case it won't work. The processor is a celeron and
I think it's about 400mhz, it has 64mb sd ram. She only really uses the PC
for the internet. I would appreciate any thoughts on this please.
Thanks.
- Posted by Ed Rust on April 15th, 2005
No reason not to... the USB ports aren't a problem. I'm still running
one Win 98SE machine on a USB adapter into the modem.
HTH,
Ed
Tom wrote:
- Posted by Shep© on April 16th, 2005
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:23:30 GMT If I have seen farther it is because
I have stood on the shoulder of giants Ed Rust <noone@no.where> wrote
:
Ditto :P
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- Posted by Jimmy Dean on April 16th, 2005
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:15:55 GMT, "Tom" <johncon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
USB PCI should work on Pentium II/Celeron and up.
Don't suppose the ADSL modem has an ethernet connection - to be
preferred over USB. If it does I'd add a network card rather than a
USB one.
jd
- Posted by riddick on April 16th, 2005
"Tom" <johncon2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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USB cards are cheap and the system meets minimum requirements for USB 2.0.
Go for it.
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- Posted by Keme on April 16th, 2005
Jimmy Dean wrote:
Just to clarify (no offense intended)
Ethernet is preferred because it really is a network conection you're
installing, so it's the natural way to go. Less drivers to install, and
more flexible once you want to add a second computer to the internet line.
Besides, with new installations you can't even be sure that win98 USB
drivers for the modem are delivered, but of course you checked that ... :-)
