[Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC TO OUR INTERNET CONNECTION?

[Maurice York]

I'm going to assume from your stipulation of the age of this poor
beast that there's not a great chance for this, but if it happens to
have a USB port (or if you have a USB card you can put in it), you can
use a USB-Ethernet adapter, such as this one from Belkin:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=104991

-Maurice

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North Carolina State University
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On 10/8/07, Frances, Melodie <mfrances at gtu.edu> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Apologies for being off topic with this question, but you all are so
> very tech savy.
>
> I have an old (windows 98) pc that only has a phone connection on it -
> Is there any kind of adaptor that I can use to connect a phone plug in
> to an Ethernet connection? Something like a jack that would have the
> phone connection on one end (small) and the Ethernet connection on the
> other?
>
> I have tried just transferring the files via a floppy or a flash drive
> but the pc is so old this isn't working either!!!!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Melodie Frances
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