Re: [Thinkpad] built-in wireless t23

USB alternatives might do well for those who are not fans of pc card wifi
nics.

My 600X uses a Linky Compact USB Wifi thingamabob quite nicely.

Even came with a lanyard, which also holds my USB storage doohickey.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Adams" <dcadams@neo.rr.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] built-in wireless t23

> That makes sense, but my wife seems to find a way to sit with weight on
the
> pcmcia cards antenna every time, the thing is falling apart. I also like
> the fact that there is no weak, ugly hunk of plastic sticking out the side
> of my sleek black computer. I keep my 3com combo to swap if I need the
> network card for pci, but when windows is up, I have an Intel/Xircom type
3
> card that fits completely inside the card slot, nice clean solution It
goes
> in for large file transfers and when I'm somewhere without wireless.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On
> Behalf Of David Ross
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:19 PM
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] built-in wireless t23
>
> || I don't know about out of luck.... if you feel like being a bit
> || creative, you could install an antenna yourself.
>
> I don't see what the big deal is on internal wireless; the T23 has two
> pc-card slots, pc-card wireless adapters are reasonably cheap, and this
> way you don't get locked into one standard. (Regular networking is
> another matter, it is very useful not to need card and socket services
> loaded for the machine to see a net card.)
>
> - David R.
>
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