Re: Wireless G Adapter for Desktop?
- From: Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:59:55 -0400
I tend to favor internal PCI wireless cards, because the USB 2.0 adapters are
real dust catchers. In terms of speed, they are pretty much the same.
Your speed of access to the internet would barely change at all if you went with
wifi instead of wired. Even the older 802.11b wifi is faster than most any
boradband internet connection, which is the limiting factor for speed of
internet. (I'm not familiar enough with the speed of Verizon's FIOS broadband
to comment on it.)
If you do a lot of file sharing among desktop computers, it will be slower with
wifi, mostly with very large files.
Save your money. Buy cheap 802.11g equipment rather than
not-ready-for-prime-time 802.11-DRAFT-N. The 802.11n standard is not approved
by standards bodies, and any equipment you buy now could become incompatible
with any standard version you buy in the future. When 802.11n becomes an
approved standard and there are standard 802.11n routers and adapters, that is
the time to consider replacing the 802.11g stuff. In the meantime, every wifi
vendor (Linksys, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, others) is touting its pre-n
equipment, to try to get people to replace perfectly good equipment... Ben Myers
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:36:43 -0500, Journey <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My two desktop PCs are directly connected to a wireless router via.
network cables. The router is directly connected to my cable modem.
The cables are inconveniently placed.
Would there be any downside in terms of speed accessing the Internet
if I used two USB 2.0 wireless G adapters such as this?:
http://tinyurl.com/3ac8hq
My network would then be:
Cable Modem --> Wireless G Router
--> Laptop Wireless G
--> Desktop Wireless G USB 2 Adapter
--> Desktop Wireless G USB2 Adapter
I don't have a grasp on what the relative speed of the Internet, of a
direct connect, and of g-wireless are. (just for completeness any
comments on what n-wireless would bring might be useful too in case I
might want to wait for those adapters).
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