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Leon. wrote:
> "Sam" <> wrote in message
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>>I have a SMC Barricade SMC7004ABR broadband router that works perfectly
>
> with
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>>my PCs.
>>
>>I am wondering if there is any way to connect this to my laptop that does
>>not have a network card. It has USB and COM ports.
>
>
> You can get PCMCIA ethernet cards if you dont want to do the USB thing.

They're generally 20% more expensive than USB network adapters.

>
> COM ports cant handle ethernet. There were parallel port ethernet devices -
> only useful for 10mhz ethernet, and quite slow at it ...
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>
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Thanks. I picked up a PCMCIA ethernet card and it has done the job nicely.

"Sooky Grumper" <sookygrumper@fishies_.com> wrote in message
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> Leon. wrote:
> > "Sam" <> wrote in message
> > news:3fd9b38f$...
> >
> >>I have a SMC Barricade SMC7004ABR broadband router that works perfectly
> >
> > with
> >
> >>my PCs.
> >>
> >>I am wondering if there is any way to connect this to my laptop that
does
> >>not have a network card. It has USB and COM ports.
> >
> >
> > You can get PCMCIA ethernet cards if you dont want to do the USB thing.
>
> They're generally 20% more expensive than USB network adapters.
>
> >
> > COM ports cant handle ethernet. There were parallel port ethernet
devices -
> > only useful for 10mhz ethernet, and quite slow at it ...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
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