That is a pretty old one so you have to watch out for a few things. The cpu and ram are not that great so you don't want to load them up. A USB wifi adapter will do exactly that. What you want is actually a PCMCIA adapter. Thats the credit card slot on the side. This works much better than the usb ones. The USB ones need a lot more over head from the computer as it goes through hardware and drivers before it gets into memory. The PCMCIA ones have a direct memory slot so you don't take the bug performance hit. I have used a 133 Acer laptop with both. With the usb it was all it would do to have one page open at a time. I had my ram maxed out too. When I tried the pcmcia card it was faster and I could browse almost as well as my new laptop. It makes that much difference at times.
The usb ports on this are version 1 so they are quite slow and you will never get close to advertised speeds. The pcmcia cards will go full speed. The other part of that was the usb ones are too easy to damage or knock out of the port. That was pretty annoying. Almost any of the usb ones will work IF the drivers are there for your version of windows. You may be stuck without drivers on both types if you are using win95. I'd make sure of the stores return policy before buying either one. The usb ones are cheaper but not as fast and more prone to damage but you may even have trouble with either type of port not being compatible with what is now available. It doesn't matter as far as brand etc.
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