ze5185 & usb 2.0 PCMCIA card

I have a Pavilion ze5185 notebook.  I'm sure that all usb ports are 1.1 because of their performance and the age of the computer.  I want to buy a Dynex PCMCIA usb 2.0 card that my computer will have a high speed usb port/s.  Is it possible to know if it would work with the specs of my computer?  I recently changed an "n" wireless usb adapter which is really slow.  It gives me a speed of 54 Mbps.  I have a newer office which also uses a usb n wireless adapter which is far enough away from the router and it gives me a speed of 270 Mbit/s.  I'm assuming that the difference is in the speed of the usb port.  I don't know much about computers and would appreciate your comments.  Thank you.

Yes the ze5100 has usb 1.1 ports. Usb 2.0 arrived with the ze5400. The problem is that the ze5xxx and the ze4xxx used an ALi (which has same Tony of them) main chipset and pcmcia ports was problematic even back in the day. You can go back into the older business forum (which was the only forum here) and find old posts from back in 2002-2004 era and you will see that users had a lot of trouble with all kinds of pcmcia cards. If I remember what a particular chipset usb 2.0 works at all with the pcmcia controller and I think it's the chipset, via which is not widely used in usb 2.0 adapters pcmcia and I'm sure is not the chipset used in the maps of Dynex. I am skeptical that there is a way to get complete wireless "n" of this little girl performance. You have no need of a new laptop, but if you could even get a used one or two newer and closer to the modern as a machine "Centrino" of any age that you will have something that you can achieve good performance.

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