seethru Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 I've tried wireless before, and I was very disappointed with the speed I was getting. When I was at the capacity of my internet download it stopped me from browsing at all, but with cat5 cable I can browse fine while downloading at capacity...then my capacity was 125k/sec, and I had a usb wireless adapter. Now I have 350k/sec, and I'm thinking of going with a pci card wireless adapter. Is the same thing going to happen? I have a 11mbps wireless router hooked into my wired router (which I will still be using), so upgrading to a 54mbps is kind of out of the question. I guess what I want to know is with a pci wireless adapter am I going to be able to download and still do everything else that I do on the net usually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganpugh84 Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 usb was the bootle neck before and will be again if you use it. I think you should go with a PCMCIA or PCI card (or you could get a PCI PCMCIA adapter and then use a PCMCIA card :p) I have a 802.11g router and a Mini-PCI 802.11g card built into my laptop and it works fine. I have 125KB/s download and I have never had any problems with speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statikk Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Yea like he said. Wireless USB adaptors absolutely suck. You'll do just fine with PCI/PCMCIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seethru Posted September 13, 2003 Author Share Posted September 13, 2003 thanks, gonna end up buying a 802.11g quite likely so that I have the faster one for when I move to my new place and get a faster wireless router. Right now we have a 802.11b router, so its limited to 11mbps, but thats still over a meg a second so I shouldn't experience any problems with speed as long as I get a pci card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi Son Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Stay with wires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seethru Posted September 14, 2003 Author Share Posted September 14, 2003 can't, moving out and we can't put wires in to the apartment. I went and bought a d-link dwl-g520 today, and it isn't pulling an ip from the router. Considering taking this BS back to best buy and getting a linksys....anyone use linksys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 can't, moving out and we can't put wires in to the apartment.I went and bought a d-link dwl-g520 today, and it isn't pulling an ip from the router. Considering taking this BS back to best buy and getting a linksys....anyone use linksys? LinkSys for a G is worst than D-Link is as it uses Broadcom's chipset for the B/G technology and only Atheros for A. See the review on the LinkSys WRT55AG on Tom's Hardware. The good quality G stuff is all Atheros chipset based which works on everything from Windows to FreeBSD and Linux and the tri-mode A/B/G chipsets are capable of doing 108Mbps raw data or 90Mbps throughput using the Atheros SuperA/G protocol. Ofcourse, the only routers to have these are the D-Link DI-774 and the NetGear FWAG114. You can only buy the good stuff at bestbuy.com as the stores don't carry it. The routers have two antennas with dual Atheros A/B/G radios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Make sure you set up WEP and MAC address filtering! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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