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Do their wireless support 108 mbps? (I just purchased a netgear wireless router with 108 bps capability).

I reinstalled windows xp onto my old dell and the activation key won't work when prompted to type it in! It's the same computer! Is there a way to bypass this whole process?

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Have you tried dell.com. The support forums there are great, you can find many common users that have come across or at least know about many of the problems. I just spent all weekend there trying to help my mom with her desktop.
It is worth a shot!
-Jill

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Disco wrote:

Do their wireless support 108 mbps? (I just purchased a netgear wireless router with 108 bps capability).

I reinstalled windows xp onto my old dell and the activation key won't work when prompted to type it in! It's the same computer! Is there a way to bypass this whole process?

1) bps != Mbps, but this may have been a typo.

2) Wireless cards generally top out at 54 Mbps. But you do not actually get those speeds. Note that a router is often intended for multiple connections and thusly it's speed isn't overkill as it is intended to sate multiple networking connections.

Here's a quick overview on wireless networking speed:

802.11b wireless maxes at a theoretical speed of 11 Mbps
802.11a and 802.11g at 54 Mbps.

Dell does sell 54 Mbps cards. As far as I know this is as fast as you can get in a end-user PC.

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