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Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:18 pm
by Chupacabra
Does anyone know if on average a USB wireless adapter is on par with a wireless network card? Does it make much of a d ifference which one you use? TIA
Re: Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:01 pm
by Fender
No. They are generally crap. I bought one and returned it just a couple of days later.
Re: Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:15 pm
by R00k
I've never had one personally, for the same reason I've never owned a USB DSL modem (they seem to introduce unnecessary complications/abstractions), but I've had to help a lot of people out with their wireless networks after buying them, and 9 times out of 10 taking the adapter back and buying an internal PCI card fixed all the problems.
Re: Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:24 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
if you Buy a cheap one, you get cheap shit..
i run my Crap-lap off of a USB wireless card, and it eats a few Cpu cycles under load, but it works great.
Re: Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:55 pm
by Therac-25
Oddly, I had the opposite experience. Maybe I just got bad cards the twice I tried, but I just couldn't get them connected (on XP).
A D-Link USB one, while not sexy, worked fine.
Re: Wireless adapters
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:25 pm
by Chupacabra
cool, thanks everyone