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firestorm09

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Are there any good wireless adapters for my desktop to make my desktop wireless? Also, is there a difference between a usb and an adapter that you plug into the PCI slot? Difference in download speeds? Thanks! I already have a router btw
 
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Your router does not support dual band, only 802.11g. I would go for a TP-Link N150 PCIe Adapter. For $18 you get 54mbps speeds on 802.11g, which your router supports. Also, it has WPA2 support while the Sabrent card does not.
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The thing is I'll most likely be in the next room so I don't need multiple antennas or really long range. I just need really fast speed. I download at 12 mb/s and upload at 12.84 mb/s. That's my internet speed, are there any good wifi adapters that fits that? The main concern is speed and hopefully it will be able to get past my case...
 
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It is also important to know that the collision avoidance that wireless cards use takes about 50% of its throughput away(so 500megabit/s becomes closer to 250 megabits/sec).

USB 2.0 can JUST pull off one of these 500megabit cards because it will do about 250(480 is just on paper).

Either way, PCI and PCI-E cards are the way to go for sure.

If you are just using it for Internet and not a home network, the speed may not change much either way unless you have an ISP pushing those kinds of speeds.

Wired is still king of speed and low latency transfers.

EDIT.

Go with dual band N if you can as well since it will not pick up as much interference as just 2.4ghz would.
 
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I have no idea how to check what type of adapter my router supports. Any idea what format that is in which would tell you? Also how can I tell what a dual-band and single-band is? I'll be streaming videos, downloading a good amount of things, gaming, and work.
 
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What model router do you have?
 
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Dual band means the card can use lets say 2.4GHz AND 5GHz(many use both at the same time, some older ones used one or the other).

MIMO(what gives you all this extra speed many times) means the router and card will use more than 1 channel at a time so they can use all available channels(when it came out it was said to hurt other users wireless performance because it was using all the channels). Either way, as long as router and PC have multiple send and receive antennas and have the right firmware(think of it as the routers OS), this improves speeds quite a bit.

2.4GHz has LOTS more interference because it is used for everything an microwaves just happen to run in that frequency meaning making popcorn can cause your streaming moves to skip(on the internet, buffering should reduce this quite a bit).
 
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Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
 
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