I bought all the parts and built myself my first computer for gaming a few months back with the intention of using it in my bedroom, which is located upstairs and on the opposite side of the house from my router. I thought it wouldn't be much of a problem, since my xbox 360 and laptop both run perfectly smoothly, both having a wireless connection in the same room.
Turns out, it didn't work well at all. I bought the TP-LINK TL-WDN3800 Dual Band Wireless N600 PCI Express Adapter off of Amazon, which had great reviews, but my connection was terrible.
On my newly built computer, my download speed was around 2-3mbps, while my crappy old laptop was at around 25mbps.
I moved it downstairs and tried it again and got a perfectly strong connection, so I know the problem is just being so far away.
Since I really have my heart set on keeping it in my room, I'm wondering if it's worth it to buy a better, more expensive adapter, Are there significantly better ones? I don't want to have to move it downstairs or string an extremely long ethernet cable throughout the house. Thanks!
Turns out, it didn't work well at all. I bought the TP-LINK TL-WDN3800 Dual Band Wireless N600 PCI Express Adapter off of Amazon, which had great reviews, but my connection was terrible.
On my newly built computer, my download speed was around 2-3mbps, while my crappy old laptop was at around 25mbps.
I moved it downstairs and tried it again and got a perfectly strong connection, so I know the problem is just being so far away.
Since I really have my heart set on keeping it in my room, I'm wondering if it's worth it to buy a better, more expensive adapter, Are there significantly better ones? I don't want to have to move it downstairs or string an extremely long ethernet cable throughout the house. Thanks!
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