Good WiFi Adapter for USB Port

Hi,
I do not use WiFi at home, but if I were to go on a trip, I will take my
old Gateway laptop with dual boot, Win98se/ WinXP. Note: This
laptop does not have WiFi.

My only interest in using WiFi on a trip is so I can check my
email at a WiFi "hot spot".

Can you recommend a good, not expensive, WiFi adapter that plugs into a
USB port?

Thank You in advance, John

wrote:

Can you recommend a good, not expensive, WiFi adapter that plugs
into a USB port?

USB wifi adapters are as common as dirt (and just as cheap) at your
average electronics / computer store.

Don't count on them being compatible with win-98.

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:56:40 -0400, wrote:

Hi,
I do not use WiFi at home, but if I were to go on a trip, I will take my
old Gateway laptop with dual boot, Win98se/ WinXP. Note: This
laptop does not have WiFi.

My only interest in using WiFi on a trip is so I can check my
email at a WiFi "hot spot".

Can you recommend a good, not expensive, WiFi adapter that plugs into a
USB port?

Thank You in advance, John

I had an old laptop that did not have a built in Wifi adaptor. I bought
a cheap adaptor card that fit in the computer at walmart. However it
would not work with win98. The computer did not have the power to run
XP, but it accepted and ran Windows 2000, and with 2000, the wifi card
worked.

Since then I bought a newer laptop with a built in wifi adaptor. The
computer came with XP installed, so I just use that, even though I much
prefer using Win98. But like you, I mostly just use that computer for
wifi when I'm travelling. At home I still prefer a desktop computer
with a large keyboard and monitor, and that one still has win98, which
I'm using now.

Good luck with it, but I have a feeling you'll need to upgrade your OS
to use a wifi card. If the processor cant handle XP, get Win2000. It
easy to find one ebay or amazon and should handle a wifi card. Of
course read he system requirements for the wifi adaptor before buying
it. An older adaptor will likely be better suited to an older OS.

XP really is based on Win2000, but XP needs a lot more power, after MS
bloated it. Win2000 has more of the feel of 98 anyhow....

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:56:40 -0400, wrote:

Hi,
I do not use WiFi at home, but if I were to go on a trip, I will take my
old Gateway laptop with dual boot, Win98se/ WinXP. Note: This
laptop does not have WiFi.

My only interest in using WiFi on a trip is so I can check my
email at a WiFi "hot spot".

Can you recommend a good, not expensive, WiFi adapter that plugs into a
USB port?
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Good luck with it, but I have a feeling you'll need to upgrade your OS
to use a wifi card. If the processor cant handle XP, get Win2000. It
easy to find one ebay or amazon and should handle a wifi card. Of
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1. Wifi adapters that ran under '98 certainly existed. I think I had one
that plugged into the slot in my old laptop, and that sort may be worth
looking for, but certainly there _were_ USB ones too. You might have to
hit the second-hand market, though ebay shows a new one
http://goo.gl/KsU7F which seems reasonably cheap, especially as it's a
unit with an (external) antenna. I use a Hawkin dish, the older model (I
think it's HWU8DD), which certainly works with my '98 machine, I think
even a USB1 port. (That model seems to cost the earth in US though [and
isn't cheap here]!)

2. jaugustine does say he already has XP if he should choose to boot it!
I'd recommend using it as getting the driver to work is probably less
hassle, but YMMV, and certainly once you _have_ got the driver to work,
either OS works fine with wifi. (Without messing about with kernelex
etc., though, you might have difficulty with modern browsers, and you
might need a fairly modern browser to check your email at a hotspot: I
don't know what sort of web interface your ISP [verizon?] provides, but
I wouldn't be surprised if it used something that will only work with a
modern browser. You can check that now, though. [You'd probably have to
use a web interface if connecting via a hotspot - some of them block
direct access to mail servers, and/or your ISP may not allow access to
its mail servers from other than a direct connection anyway.])
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