What is the difference between a Notebook Adapter and a Network Adapter?
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A notebook adapter according to me would be the electrical device the powers up your notebook.\nthe network adapter on the other hand would be the device that connects you to the internet. netword adapters can be wired or wireless.\nthe wired adapter should come pre-installed.\nwireless adapters can come in 2 ways - 1. BUILT IN or 2. ADD-IN\n\ncheck your notebook manual for more details. since it is new - CALL YOUR DAMN MANUFACTURER FOR HELP
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A bridge s basically used to connect 2 or more networks of same type.\n\nA router s used to connect networks of same or different types\n\nFor more details visit the following links
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there is no difference\nthe basic idea is that all are ethernet cables for ethernet cards\nsome ethernet cables are different \nbut what you looking for is a cable to get your computer conected to a router or a modem\nto be sure just check the way it looks like the entry for the ethernet card and you can figure out easily if that's what you need
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A hub connects computers, but sends all traffic to all ports which results in network collisions.  \n\nA switch is like a hub, but smarter.  It keeps track of which computer asks for which piece of data and has far less collisions, if any.  Switches that are for home users are only slightly more expensive than hubs.\n\nA router is like a switch, but also can assign ip addresses, forward network traffic coming in on a certain port to a certain ip address, block certain ports, etc.  \n\nA network bridge merges, for lack of a better word, two network connections on a computer.  Honestly I haven't ever needed a network bridge so I can't say much about them.
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I use one USB adapter. Yes you need a Driver to install the Hardware as others do. It works almost like a PCI Wireless card. I do not prefer it coz it take my usb port, i prefer a PCI card. Networking and all is almost the same, no effect
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Short answer:\n\nA router is an intelligent device that allows a central connection to an internet connection.  Basically connects a LAN to the internet.  It also provides many internet like services from that single connection to the PC's connected to it.\n\nA hub is a dumb networking device that only passes all traffic from one computer to all computers connected.  It does not route the traffic in any way.  It's for local area networks only.\n\nThere is also a switch which does a small amount of traffic control in a local area network.  This helps make connections in the LAN faster with 3 or more computers.
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My Dell Inspron notebook requires me to load the drivers for my network card from the CD that came with my network card. Windws would not find the drivers automatically, and you have to load the CD BEFORE you insert the network card, or you will have to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them.
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You'll need to install an Ethernet PCMCIA network interface card.  Unless you have a wireless router, then you should install a wireless network card.  (This is preferred if you have a laptop because it's all about portability.)  If you have an RJ-45 jack built-in to your laptop, make sure it's Ethernet and enabled in your laptop's BIOS.
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If you have hi-speed internet access you can purchase a Wireless router and a wireless network card. The router enables you to access your internet via ethernet cable or via wireless connection. The wireless network card can be a USB network adapter that you can attach to any USB port on your computer. If you already have a wireless router in the home all you would need is the adapter.
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you can always use a router or you can buy a lan adapter. it's like a lan hub
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I found this article that might give you some suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.networkcomputing.com/showitem.jhtml?articleID=160910914&pgno=1\n\nplrr
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Actually you don't need a router. Buy a switch -  much cheaper and will do the job for you. Or... you can buy another network adapter and configure it. Example:\nComputer1 (allready have a link to internet) has 2 NIC's (1 which exists and 1 you have to buy)\nComputer2 (the one you want to use on internet too) has 1 NIC\n!!!now, you can configure computer1 using ICS (Internet connexion sharing) - if you are using Microsoft Windows XP -> this will let you have internet on the computer2. Xp will do almost all settings for you... It's easy.
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A good laptop like my own will take any wireless feed providing your in a city or town with plenty of wireless connections. I went to NYC and I had hundreds of very fast connections at my disposal. And the most common wireless feed is IEEE802.11 (a/b/g) (Standard) ask for this wireless adapter and your good. Happy surfing.
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A network card, network adapter or NIC (network interface controller) is a piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network. It is an OSI model layer 2 item because it has a MAC address. It allows users to connect to each other either by using cables or wirelessly.\n\nEvery network card has a unique 48-bit serial number called a MAC address, which is written to ROM carried on the card. Every computer on a network must have a card with a unique MAC address. No two cards ever manufactured should share the same address. This is because the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (The IEEE) is responsible for assigning unique MAC addresses to the vendors of network interface controllers.\n\nWhereas network cards used to be expansion cards that plug into a computer bus, the low cost and ubiquity of the Ethernet standard means that most newer computers have a network interface built into the motherboard. These motherboards either have Ethernet capabilities integrated into the motherboard chipset, or implemented via a low cost dedicated Ethernet chip, connected through the PCI (or the newer PCI express bus). A separate network card is not required unless multiple interfaces are needed or some other type of network is used. Even newer motherboards may have built-in dual network (Ethernet) interfaces.\n\nThe card implements the electronic circuitry required to communicate using a specific physical layer and data link layer standard such as Ethernet or token ring. This provides a base for a full network protocol stack, allowing communication among small groups of computers on the same LAN and large-scale network communications through routable protocols, such as IP.\n\nThere are four techniques used for transfer of data, the NIC may use one or more of these techniques.\n\n    * Polling is where the microprocessor examines the status of the peripheral under program control.\n    * Programmed I/O is where the microprocessor alerts the designated peripheral by applying its address to the system's address bus.\n    * Interrupt-driven I/O is where the peripheral alerts the microprocessor that it's ready to transfer data.\n    * DMA is where the intelligent peripheral assumes control of the system bus to access memory directly. This removes load from the CPU but requires a separate processor on the card.\n\nA network card typically has a twisted pair, BNC, or AUI socket where the network cable is connected, and a few LEDs to inform the user of whether the network is active, and whether or not there is data being transmitted on it. The Network Cards are typically available in 10/100/1000 Mbits/s(Mbps). This means they can support a transfer rate of 10 or 100 or 1000 Megabits per second.\n\n///
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LAN cable connected to a router (Buy the router) or buy a network card and connect it to your laptop--unless you have it built in--and buy a router.
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Only if it has a wireless card in it.  They are optional in the Inspirons.  Control Panel > System icon > Hardware tab > Device manager.\nIf you have a wireless card, it will be listed under the Network Adapter section.
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A network card, network adapter, network interface card or NIC is a piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network