I want to connect to the internet at school, but the instructions say that I need a wireless network interface card installed on my laptop
2006-08-22 07:44:27 · 3 answers · asked by KarenCG 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Your laptop should have a PCMCIA slot that will accept a wireless card. If it does not, there are USB wirelesss adapters available.
You might want to make sure that your laptop doesn't have wireless built in already before purchasing one.
2006-08-22 07:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by reason1000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A network interface card, more commonly referred to as a NIC, is a device that allows computers to be joined together in a LAN, or local area network. Networked computers communicate with each other using a given protocol or agreed-upon language for transmitting data packets between the different machines, known as nodes. The network interface card acts as the liaison for the machine to both send and receive data on the LAN.
2006-08-22 14:52:55 · answer #2 · answered by rapidfiresbro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will be a pcmcia card(size of a credit card but a little thicker) that slides into the side of your laptop and will pick up the signal from the schools network so you have access to the schools network
2006-08-22 14:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by salute222000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋