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Self-powered Wi-Fi adaptor?

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Fri 14 Sep 2007 // 15:08 UTC

I have a PC with a woefully underpowered and not upgradeable power supply. It freaks out with a PCI Wi-Fi card installed. Is there such a thing as a wireless access device that has its own power supply?

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