Is my "Gateway" Model No. 400SD4 - WiFi capable?

7 years ago

Well, here I am, on what must be my annual pilgrimage, to this site. My (beloved) laptop is probably obsolete; I do have a

"Wireless USB Adapter (IEEE 802, 11 B/G/N) ET-UN677"

and two USB ports available on the "Gateway". I have a 'bundled' contract with "Frontier".

Please do not tell me that I will have to trash my (beloved) "Gateway". As the baldheaded man said; when he was given a comb for Christmas, "Thanks. I will never part with it".

Merry Christmas.

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bengz6westmd

7 years ago

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Funny about the Vic20 -- believe it or not, I can run quite a few of the old Vic20 games on my present computer! Some German dude wrote a Vic20 emulator (runs in DOS) yrs ago & I can run it in DOSBox on my modern desktop in either Win10 or Linux. The emulator includes a large number of games & utilities for the Vic20.

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Michael
7 years ago
Maybe. If it's equipped with a PCI card with an external antenna.

See page 3, Communications.

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7 years ago
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Brushworks is right, you may have WiFi? This was an Option on that model, would have had to pay extra for it (Factory Installed). If you go into Device Manager on the computer and click on Network Adaptor look for Agere ORiNOCO IEEE 802.11b. If you see this under Network Adaptors you should have WiFi Built in!

Didn't really realize how old your "Beloved Gateway" was. Saw a video on YouTube and it had a Floppy Drive. Been quite a while since I'd seen one of those in a Laptop. My laptop doesn't even have a CD/DVD, have to use USB Flash Drive or an external CD/DVD.

Wireless Ethernet interface features

(Factory Installed Option)

Agere ORiNOCO IEEE 802.11b network card installed in Mini PCI expansion slot Uses factory-installed internal antenna assembly 11 selectable channels 2412 MHz - 2462 MHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

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kudzu9
7 years ago
I'm not telling you that you have to trash it, but I am telling you that you should. It may be beloved, but it should be put out of its misery if you are intending to use it to connect with the Internet. Many web sites are highly resources intensive and a laptop with those specs is no longer adequate to deal with them. Get yourself a new, inexpensive laptop: it will run circles around what you are used to. You are also likely running an operating system that is no longer supported, making you more vulnerable to virus infections. Even if you feel you can get by for now, you are going to have to bite the bullet soon. If you want to stuff it and hang it on the wall so you can gaze at it affectionately, do so. But do yourself a favor and move on....
ronalawn82
Original Author
7 years ago
Many thanks for your thoughtful responses.

There is no Agere ORiNOCO IEEE; so that settles the matter convincingly and conclusively.

I do tend to get attached to the familiar; once I have become familiar with them. I have got a "Montgomery Ward's" radiogram that works. I have some vinyl LP records that I play on it. There is a "Kodak" Instamatic 304 camera with a (dead) flash cube. I had tons of fun with an "Endeavor" Fujifilm camera. I often remark that I grew up in the dark age - when we used a developer tank in a dark room. I occasionally use a microscope that I acquired during my student days.

But nothing can compare to the "VIC 20" - the first computer I ever owned. A friend taught me the rudiments of BASIC programming and my best effort was a program to troubleshoot lawn problems. (I am an Agriculturist by training and experience). I passed the VIC on to my wife's nephew.

Having said all that, can you guess how many times I have been married?

All the best for the season.

Ron.
kudzu9
7 years ago
I can relate to a lot of that. My Beseler enlarger is still with me, but it's been living in the attic for quite a while. Maybe we could open a museum together... :-)
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uscpsycho
7 years ago
Listen to kudzu9.
Michael
7 years ago
I'll toss in my Commodore.
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User
7 years ago
I'd have to agree, I wasn't going to open that can of worms though! I have quite a few old computers lying around myself, but I'd never turn back. I love my new laptop (guess I shouldn't say new, it's 2-3 years old now). I've got a few older Win XP Games running on my laptop, but nothing any further back (my choice).

A couple of weeks ago I got out my old laptop to update everything (I keep it as a spare in case I have any problems). It's a Intel 2.0GHz Dual Core with 8gb DDR3 RAM and a 500gb Seagate SSHD hard drive (Hybrid Drive). Compared to my new laptop, this thing was like racing a turtle. Wonder how I ever used a computer that slow.

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