 So you've got a nice
efficient wire free home network great, but what about that legacy
PC that you want to use, maybe as a music server for your MP3
collection or a main storage drive for shared documents or even as a
place to attach a printer.Adding wifi to a fixed desktop machine
is not something you consider until you have the need, but as luck
would have it those nice chaps at Netgear are way ahead of you, the
Netgear WG121 USB wireless adaptor brings the benefits of wireless
networking to your USB enabled machine.
The WG121 uses the most up to date wireless technology in the
802.11g 54mbit standard and combining this with the later USB 2.0
connection, together these give a fast throughput making the most of
your wireless router or access point. Connecting to your PC is easy
enough as long as your windows operating system is 98 and above the
smart wizard install application makes the loading of drivers and
configuration of the WG121 simple and the near 2 meter USB cable is
generous allowing you to position the unit freely.
In practice the Netgear WG121 will go though a few walls and
still give an effective range of about 30 - 50ft with a good full
signal strength in the average home, the wep encryption seemed to
add very little overhead and didn't noticeably effect connection
speeds, we did find that the wep switched itself off each time the
WG121 was rebooted its thought that a patch is due from Netgear for
this annoyance shortly.
Having said this the Netgear unit worked with all the PC USB
slots we tried without fuss getting us online in the a matter of
minutes overall it does what it says on the tin and gives a way to
breathe life into that PC gathering dust in your wireless home.
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