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Hooking Up To a Wireless Gateway

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by chrisw, 2007/02/11.

  1. 2007/02/11
    chrisw

    chrisw Inactive Thread Starter

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    My brother has (for his AT&T DSL) a wireless gateway 2Wire model 2701HG-B, which "does not support HomePNA nor USB." What does this phrase mean? Specifically, does the latter mean that the gateway does not connect to the main computer by USB port, or that the peripheral adaptor has to be PCI, and not USB? It would seem to me that the peripheral shouldn't care.
     
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    TonyT

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    It means that home pna and usb networking are not supported, it means it uses cat5 ethernet and.or wireless 80211a/b/g.

    HPA = Home Phoneline Networking
    USB = Universal Serial Bus

    Some devices/gateways/routers do support hpa and/or usb networking. The one you have must be an older moldel cause the new ones do have a usb port for usb networking.
    http://www.2wire.com/?p=106
     
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    chrisw

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    Thanks....makes sense.
     
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