Going Wireless Again


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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?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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