
There are excellent help guides and how-to’s for using USB Ethernet Adapters with Windows XP, 2000, and ME here. Windows XP standard drivers do seem to work decent enough and with USB 2.0 there are even less installation and set-up issues, than with pervious versions of Windows OS. You can share your Internet connection or just transfer data between PCs in different rooms by using standard Ethernet Cat5 twisted pair cabling.

USB 2.0 to Ethernet Adapters are compatible With Windows 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP. USB 2.0 Ethernet Network adapters allow you to connect to a hub or switch to communicate with other systems on the network. You have an iMac! ( Go here for more info on iMacs.) Your computer doesn’t support IRQ sharing (for PCI NICs only). You don’t have any open expansion slots in your computer Common reasons for not adding a second NIC are:
