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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone throw some light my way.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recently purchased two ISA adapter cards from
Oatley Electronics, both Spectrum24's by 3com, (just to dip my toes in the
water). They cost me $35 each and came with three S2403BH ceiling mount antennas
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href="http://www.cushcraft.com/details.asp?style_id=6&catid=121&group_id=1">http://www.cushcraft.com/details.asp?style_id=6&catid=121&group_id=1</A> ). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And being a rank novice with wifi, I need an answer
to this question. can the PCMCIA card sitting on the adapter card be used as a
stand alone card in my laptop?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can see the ISA card here. </FONT><FONT
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href="http://www.symbol.com/products/wireless/pci_card_2.html">ttp://www.symbol.com/products/wireless/pci_card_2.html</A> It
has two removable pigtails and to me looks like every other pc card I've come
across, I couldn't find any links to a 2Mbps pc card on their web site. will I
do any harm chucking it in a laptop to test it???</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I buy a newer and faster card for my laptop
will it be backward compatible with earlier wifi standards and the ISA card
I now have in my desktop comp.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And finally ,Question number 857. when I finally
bite the bullet and buy faster stuff will these antenna be any good to hang onto
and use.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanx for any help</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter. (rabbit)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>