How to Select Wireless Communication Cards for a Laptop

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Mark. Today, we're going to talk about how to select wireless communication cards for a laptop. In selecting wireless communication cards, you need to ask yourself a couple of questions. How are you going to connect to the network, whether it's ISDN or wireless, wireless LAN. And also the laptop hardware requirements or capabilities, are they going to be 16-bit or 32-bit cards. And as far as selecting which type of card you're going to use, there's a mirage of different types of cards as far as the vendors and stuff. It's kind of just by your choice. But the connection type you want to look at is, what you're connecting to, what's it capable of, if it's capable of wireless G communications or wireless B communications. And then, of course, you want to get a card that's appropriate. You can also connect to a wireless network with internal wireless communication cards. So you want to check the hardware on your laptop to make sure you even need a wireless card. But the wireless cards are fairly inexpensive, you're usually going to spend about $10 to $50 on one depending on what flavor you get. And they connect you to LANs, WANs, metropolitan area networks. And that's how to select a wireless communication card for your laptop."