Amacom Flip PCMCIA Card

Advantages: Handy eway to store portable data.
Disadvantages: A bit pricey

...I have used this flash key for mainly transferring JPG photos and word documents. It has proved to be an efficient and useful device. It appears to be a pretty robust piece of technology. USB (Universal Serial Bus) is now a fairly common standard port for desk top PCs and laptops. Most computers now have these ports to enable plug-and-play capacity. Various devices such as printers, scanners and cameras can be connected to these ports to transfer data. Memory keys are useful as a means of storing lots of text files for example, digital photos or Mp3 files. Although the Amacom USB2 Flash Drive has a capacity of 2GB, the amount of data you will actually be able to store on it will be slightly under 1GB. This is because all flash drives use up some of their memory capacity by the software already installed on them. It is this software... Read review

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Advantages: Wi Fi Networking is great
Disadvantages: Belkin aren't, installation isn't

...(if enabled), me and my neighbour can feel secure that we wont be able to see each others files. However, I don't think this card supports many security features. I think that if my neighbour were a hacker, they'd find it easy to tap into my network. But that doesn't matter, because I don't know any hackers within range of my signal. But this is a downside to the product. --------------------------- Installation --------------------------- Getting the card into the computer and the laptop was easy. Just put the PCI card in, put the PCMCIA card in, turn them on. Here's where the nightmare of networking begins. Firstly, if I remember rightly, Windows does not instinctively recognise the new hardware. You have to install drivers for it. We had loads of badly labelled CD's come with the cards, we were unsure as to which ones... Read review

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Advantages: Good price - easy installation - online tutorials for the uninitiated!
Disadvantages: May be slightly daunting to people less proficient in IT.

...OK - lets get down to brass tacks. I have a 1mb adsl connection (broadband) feeding my desktop and a company laptop. When I wanted to connect to my company's corporate network, I had to unplug my desktop's adsl connection and plug in my laptop, obviously rendering my desktop with no connectivity. After a few weeks of this I got very bored as I live with a friend, and when I was working from home, he wasn't able to use the internet until I had finished working. So, using my technical expertise (I work in IT) and some funding from the Boss (taxable telecommunication benefit apparently?!?) I invested in a Belkin Wireless Modem and Integrated Router (acting as an access point) and a PCMCIA Type II Wireless Laptop card. The theory behind this is that the dekstop will have a wired connection - but it will also offer a wireless... Read review

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