Hi
Excellent web site which I will use for learning.I want to pu my weak WiFi signal. Should I use a USB or PCMCIA input. what are the advantages/dis advantages of each.
Thanks
Tony

I’m looking for a friend who bought her new laptop with out a pcmcia slot, now ive found the adapters you guy talked about on this forum, my real question is what are my options other than getting the PCMCIA to CF Card Adaptor and an alltel air card? ive already checked into the usb to pcmcia but they get a little pricey, any suggestions?

i have a kyocera 650 air card from alltel and a new HP with the express card slot. what is the solution to make it work

Just a quick update to let you know that the small adaptor I was talking about is in fact working with 32 bits PCMCIA cards as long as they don’t need the full speed required by the 32 bits bandwidth.
One of my readers is reporting a perfect working 3G connection using the same adaptor.
http://www.origaminfo.com/actu.asp/n/48/t/retour-adaptateur-pcmcia-vers-compact-flash.html

In answer to Kevin’s question, the U132 adapter IS designed for 32-bit cards. The manufacturer, Elan Digital Systems, also makes a 16-bit adapter, as do a number of other companies (and you can generally tell from the price whether it’s a 16- or 32-bit adapter.

As for the CF to PCMCIA solution, I ran a translation from French on http://www.freetranslation.com and it specifically states that this solution will NOT work with 32-bit cards.

I want to be able to use my Verizon wireless card on my desktop, too, but I think I’ll wait for some months for the price to drop drastically from its current average of $200.

Thanks for that confirmation Fred. I’ve been carrying around a Semsons PCMCIA Adapter for the last couple of days without finding the time to plug it in to test my 5GB PCMCIA Memory cards. Good to here that they will work without problems. Now I just have to rerip some of my movies to higher resolutions. LEt’s see now 5GB should hold about 7 full length movies at 700MB per flick.

Excellent speed tests Kevin. I’m going to see that site to check what my Samsung i730 is really giving me.

Thanks for that confirmation Fred. I’ve been carrying around a Semsons PCMCIA Adapter for the last couple of days without finding the time to plug it in to test my 5GB PCMCIA Memory cards. Good to here that they will work without problems. Now I just have to rerip some of my movies to higher resolutions. LEt’s see now 5GB should hold about 7 full length movies at 700MB per flick.

Excellent speed tests Kevin. I’m going to see that site to check what my Samsung i730 is really giving me.

Thanks for that confirmation Fred. I’ve been carrying around a Semsons PCMCIA Adapter for the last couple of days without finding the time to plug it in to test my 5GB PCMCIA Memory cards. Good to here that they will work without problems. Now I just have to rerip some of my movies to higher resolutions. LEt’s see now 5GB should hold about 7 full length movies at 700MB per flick.

Excellent speed tests Kevin. I’m going to see that site to check what my Samsung i730 is really giving me.

Thanks for that confirmation Fred. I’ve been carrying around a Semsons PCMCIA Adapter for the last couple of days without finding the time to plug it in to test my 5GB PCMCIA Memory cards. Good to here that they will work without problems. Now I just have to rerip some of my movies to higher resolutions. LEt’s see now 5GB should hold about 7 full length movies at 700MB per flick.

Excellent speed tests Kevin. I’m going to see that site to check what my Samsung i730 is really giving me.

Thanks for that confirmation Fred. I’ve been carrying around a Semsons PCMCIA Adapter for the last couple of days without finding the time to plug it in to test my 5GB PCMCIA Memory cards. Good to here that they will work without problems. Now I just have to rerip some of my movies to higher resolutions. LEt’s see now 5GB should hold about 7 full length movies at 700MB per flick.

Excellent speed tests Kevin. I’m going to see that site to check what my Samsung i730 is really giving me.

Yes indeed, since it’s just a very simple adapter with no electronic, I believe that 32 Bits cards can’t work! I’ll update my post about that… It’s important!

Fred, that is the Semson adapter and it does NOT support 32 bit cards which rules out all 3G PC Card modems.

Fred, that’s great, but I have one question: does that adapter support 32-bit PCMCIA cards? Most adapters do not and they are the prevelant card type these days; there are very few 16-bit 3G cards on the market.

Kevin, I posted an short review of an alternative way to connect a PCMCIA modem to a CF slot.
It’s in french but pictures are speaking themselves:

http://www.origaminfo.com/actu.asp/n/3/t/adaptateur-pcmcia-vers-compact-flash.html

What’s cool with this adapter is that you remain ultra mobile

if this product came out last year i would consider it but i’ll stick to my evdo tethering since i already carry my xv6700 everywhere i go. and besides if you have an evdo phone already why would you carry around a third device?? makes no sense.

but if you don’t have a 3g phone and don’t plan on getting one i think this would be a great product.

of course if they would just build a umpc with this adapter built in already i would not be writing this post in the first place.

Warning: this USB to PCMCIA adaptor can be only used with some wireless modems. That all. It can not be used with any other kind of PCMCIA cards like video cards, multimedia cards, memory or HDD cards, etc.