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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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USB Wireless Adapters for Desktop Computer: what do I need to know?
Looking into these, and the price range seems awfully wide for an item that, as far as I know, does only one thing. What do I need to know? I just want to have a wireless internet receiver on a desktop machine.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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from personal experience, trying several different ones, I would strongly suggest going for an inner PCI wireless card. The Motorola one I had got way too hot and stopped working. The Linksys one I had sucked too. I had some other brand I picked up in the 30ish range and it also malfunctioned.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Hey Ben, I have this one from Amazon.
Amazon.com: Medialink - Wireless N USB Adapter - 802.11n - 150Mbps - 2.4ghz - Windows 2000 / XP / Vista 64-Bit /128-Bit Windows 7 Compatible: Electronics Highly recommended on Amazon and I have not had any problems since very early on when I had to reinstall it when it stopped working for some reason-but that hasn't happened since the first few days i had it, I'm assuming an update to it that I got soon after installing helped there. You want a 802.11n adapter unless you have a very old router-you don't have to match the adapter brand to the router brand. I know little about them past this, and don't know about anything new that's come out since I got this one, but I'm very happy with this one. Last edited by Thomkal : 07-06-2011 at 06:41 AM. |
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