Wireless card for a desktop?

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Levone

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Trying to find a wireless networking card for a desktop. Currently I have a USB adapter that worked well for a time but has suddenly been dropping my signal randomly. I know it's isolated to that machine, because no other computer (out of 6) in the household has this problem. Quite irksome during an online game.

I tried replacing it with a Netgear N150 and a Belkin 150 USB replacement, but those made it way, way worse (went from 10 Megabit/s to 0.6 megabit/s) so I'm hoping a wireless card will work better than a USB one.

So does anyone have any suggestions? Or know something about wireless cards that I don't and want to stop me from making a stupid purchase? Currently I'm looking at this one as it has good reviews and I have an empty PCI-E 1x slot.

Also can someone tell me what the point of them advertising that it's capable of getting 150 megabits/s is? Seems kind of pointless but from reviews, some people are quite worried about it. Are there internet connections out there, besides college campuses, that are capable of such speeds? Cause our high speed cable here locally only gets 12 megabits/s and 150 megabits/s would be some 20 megabytes/s.
 
I am two rooms away from the router.

Yes I have an open PCI-E slot. Two, actually both 1x and 16x (looks like a 1x card though. At least I'd hope it wouldn't take a 16x to run a wireless card..).


One thing I've never learned well about computers is networking stuff. I know a good bit about hardware, quite a lot about software, don't understand networking worth a shit and never found a good place to explain it all to me. So this may seem like a stupid question:

What's the difference between G and N and what do I have to consider in regards to routers and other parts of the computer/network with them? Also what's all that WEP, WAP, WPA, IEEE, TKIP, AES, and so forth mean? Oh and thanks for the response, as I said, I know very little of what I'm doing in this portion of computers.
 
Levone said:
I am two rooms away from the router.
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Then I would definately get one of them I linked to and you can always move the antennae where you get the best reception.

Yes I have an open PCI-E slot. Two, actually both 1x and 16x (looks like a 1x card though. At least I'd hope it wouldn't take a 16x to run a wireless card..).
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To use either one of those cards I linked you to, you need an open PCI slot(usually colored white) not pci express. What motherboard or computer do you have, so I know what available slots you have?

What's the difference between G and N and what do I have to consider in regards to routers and other parts of the computer/network with them?
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Wireless G is only capable of speeds up to 54 Mbit per second where as wireless N is capapble of up to 150 mbit per second. Wireless N is capable of faster speeds and farther distances. So if you only have a wireless G router then get the wireless G adapter.

Also what's all that WEP, WAP, WPA, IEEE, TKIP, AES, and so forth mean?
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Those would be the different types of security encrpytion that the adapters can do. Wep being less secure with most people using wpa or wpa2.
 
To use either one of those cards I linked you to, you need an open PCI slot(usually colored white) not pci express. What motherboard or computer do you have, so I know what available slots you have?
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No no, I meant the one I linked to was a 1x card. I know I have an open 1x slot (and several PCI slots), I was just wondering if the one I linked to was 1x since it doesn't explicitly say. The connection looks short though so I assume it'd fit in a 1x slot.
 
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