Learn three ways to connect your computer to the internet using USB ports, including adapters and phone tethering.

Workstations manufactured in the 1990s and early 2000s, before Wi-Fi became prevalent, often lack wireless networking cards or adapters that enable a computer to detect and interpret Wi-Fi signals.

USB Wi-Fi adapters allow you to add wireless internet capabilities to computers that wouldn’t otherwise have it. These may be older devices that never came with a Wi-Fi adapter or newer ones that have ...

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