what is faster wireless internet or a long lan cable

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helpless

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Hello everybody

I just bought a new pc and i have a problem.
I want to put my pc on the adic and have internet on it.
We have a wireless router :E Tech wlrt03
And i was wondering what is faster : just buy a long cable or go wireles
what is your advise ?
 
If you use a cable you can expect to reache speeds of up to 1Gb/s if you have a really REALLY good network card, typically the cable would run at around 100Mb/s Wireless caps at 54Mb/s
 
does the length of the cable matter or is it just pure the network card that matters ,and so yes what do you recomend what for network card i should get
 
You can't use a Cat5 cable longer than 350 feet. Wireless typically only reaches 300 feet, with very poor reception at the last couple dozen feet.

If you want to attain 1Gbps speeds on your network you'll need a Gigabit card at all machines you wish to reach gigabit speeds at. Combining a Gigabit card in one machine with regular 10/100 cards on other machines will result in only reaching 100Mbps speeds. Typically these Gigabit cards are much more expensive than a regular 10/100 ethernet card. Also the cabling needs to be seriously good cable to reach maximum speed. Inferior cabling will interfere with the signal, resulting in reaching less than gigabit speeds.
 
creature_feature said:
Inferior cabling will interfere with the signal, resulting in reaching less than gigabit speeds.
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nope.. it you dont use a Gigabit cable on that speed,.. the individual wires inside will function together as Capacitors. this makes the whole otput of the cable a mess,.. and thats why the speed goes down, so the output is,.. well,.. lets say,. "readable" :)

anyway, i would go for a wire,.. just because its much safer, because noone can login onto your network without having a cable attached to it.
 
I would use a cable if possible, a little faster and people havr many more probl;ems with wireless then wirefull :P

I dont se why people hate wires to much anyway's I have three computers 2 upstairs 1 downstairs, so I drilled a hole in the wall but a cover over it, crawled though the attic unstill i reched the room downstiars drilled another whole and the cord was coming out of my wall to the back of my PC.
 
dragon2309 said:
If you use a cable you can expect to reache speeds of up to 1Gb/s if you have a really REALLY good network card, typically the cable would run at around 100Mb/s Wireless caps at 54Mb/s
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wireless a is 108 Mb/s.
 
I dont know a single person that even gets half the rating on wireless on average though... maybe they are unlucky or hapen to get bad ones, but thats all i know in the ones i have seen suck.
 
flame1117 said:
I dont know a single person that even gets half the rating on wireless on average though... maybe they are unlucky or hapen to get bad ones, but thats all i know in the ones i have seen suck.
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thats because the speed of the connection is limited to your isp. and every wireless network i have set up has gotten atleast very good signal strength and mostly speeds of 54 Mbps.
 
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