I also have the Inspiron 8200, a great machine besides the lack of an internal wi-fi card. Right now, I have a Linksys G band card in use in my laptop. I must say that I have been generally a Linksys supporter (mostly because I have always bought Linksys and had nothing but success with all of the products). Either way though, netgear or D-Link are always sound choices. If you are looking for the speed of your cable connection, anything from B band to G band will do you just fine. No cable connections exceed the capabilities of the B band (and this way you can save some money too). Unless you plan to do heavy network transfers (from one computer to another on your personal home network) I do not see a need for the G band, except if you are planning to travel aways from your access point and even then you aren't gaining much distance. Any way you look at it, if you are a light network user looking for an inexpensive and easy way to go wireless, check out the Linksys 802.11B card, if a little more speed interests you for file sharing on the network, check out the Linksys 802.11G. Either way, you cant go wrong.

If you need anything else, please write back.

JHerb

thanks, i think i will check out the linksys. what prices should they be, because there are a lot of vendors out there and sometimes they are not always the same, as far as how much they charge. i will just shop around though, thanks again.

it will work ok ...  just make sure all products are dlink extreme G then (which will be a bit expensive, but that's the way to do it if you absolutely need the speed)

then again ...  nothing comes close to wired speeds ;p

thanks for the advice. :smileyhappy: yeah, i mean, as far as file sharing goes, i do plan on doing that as well. what i am looking at now is the d-link xtreme g 802.11g. i hope that should work well.

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highonfire wrote:
thanks for the advice. :smileyhappy: yeah, i mean, as far as file sharing goes, i do plan on doing that as well. what i am looking at now is the d-link xtreme g 802.11g. i hope that should work well.

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The D-Link equipment is very good. I have been using it for quite a while. I have the 624 wireless access point and I used to use their PCMCIA Xtreme-G card, but I recently purchased one of the Intel 2200BG mini-PCI cards.

Anyway, I just waanted to let you know that you should have no troubles with the D-Link equipment.

thanks dirgon:smileyhappy: