[flavallee]

That's my thought too. Don't invest too much money into a dinosaur laptop that has the performance of a snail.

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[bjf98]

Okay. Thanks everyone for their concern; my main endeavor was just to get XP to run and it does that fine. I understand what you mean about not investing too much money. I found some cheap wirless cards such as this one:
http://www.google.com/products/catal...541&sa=title#p
That I might buy if I have a little money lying around.

[flavallee]

I'd go Linksys over NetGear because they're easier to set up and are more user-friendly.

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[bjf98]

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...336401&Type=CJ

$30 dollars for a $50 dollar item....sounds pretty good...something to look at

[flavallee]

That's the same Linksys model that I used in my old HP Pavilion N5495 laptop before I got rid of it.

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[bjf98]

Did you get good performance out of it? How well was its range?

[flavallee]

I only used the Linksys wireless adapter card when I took the laptop to my computer club meeting at the high school, and it was never more than 20' - 25' away from the wireless router. I can't say how well it would've worked in other environments.

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[bjf98]

Okay...thanks.

[DoubleHelix]

With a system that old, the bottleneck isn't going to be the wireless network connection speed. It's the RAM and processor.

[flavallee]

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

With a system that old, the bottleneck isn't going to be the wireless network connection speed. It's the RAM and processor.

AMD-K6 433 MHz processor

64 MB of RAM(upgradeable to 192 MB) - 4 MB of it dedicated to video memory

Yep. Big-time performance bottleneck.

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