From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [72.254.52.233] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.84.143.49]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 392325 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:54:23 -0400 Message-ID: <451BD3FB.6050105@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:54:03 -0700 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Adding internal Wi-Fi to non-Wi-Fi-ready notebooks References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/28/06 04:59 am, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:38:54 +0100, Stuart Gray wrote: > > >> Does that use an additional USB port? If so, then those of us using single >> USB port laptops (like Thinkpad T20) won't benefit over the internal version >> (I use a Jacaranda Blue PCMCIA card mysemf) >> > > get a travel USB port hub, they have 4 port ones the size of a pack of matches. If you have a power outlet you could use the adaptor, but USB is usually more available. > > Stan, you haven't noticed any appreciable voltage drop using a hub on the T23? I might expect this with the T20 and 21, at least, due to their age (and yes, I do see low voltage issues with machines of that vintage - just swapped out a desktop which simply stopped charging an iPod). Just curious. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------