Calax Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Ok, I'm on a wireless network right now and I need a new card. The current one hiccups every minute or so making any FPS style game lag for about three seconds before it lets me back to playing (causing me to splatter usually), I KNOW this is the card, and am looking for another one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833166037 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833156267 and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16833156054 are my three big possibilities, but before I jump in and buy anything I wanted a bit of advice on other possibilities or on the ones above Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Arkan Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) In my experience, internal cards seem to have better reliability overall, but that micro USB one looks swank. Edited May 12, 2010 by Arkan "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
Gfted1 Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Just curious but why would anyone buy a wirless LAN card for a desktop PC? Arent they slower than wired connections? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Enoch Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Just curious but why would anyone buy a wirless LAN card for a desktop PC? Arent they slower than wired connections? Depends on the distance between your router and your PC, and how easy/hard it is to run cables between the two. Our router is currently in the master bedroom-- the house was built in the '30s and doesn't have a whole lot of coaxial or phone jacks built in, and since our cable company is our ISP and our phone provider, the router needed to be somewhere that had both. So rather than run a new T1 line through the (plaster) walls, we went wireless. My desktop has an internal netgear PCI wireless card. I'm not happy with the driver, though-- the program hangs roughly 20% of the time I wake the machine from sleep mode, requiring a full reboot to get working. Once it's connected properly, though, it works fine.
Calax Posted May 13, 2010 Author Posted May 13, 2010 Basically what Enoch said. The router is in the room next to mine, but my parents will never let me run about 100' of cable to get from my computer to it (because i have to go around the wall etc) and thus I get to play wireless... whupee... of course that'll change when I go to school but meh. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
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