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Hello everyone :) I recently wanted to look into buying a dual band wireless for my motherboard considering it doesn't come with built in wifi on it.

My motherboard is the AsRock H97M Pro4 with these PCI specs:
1 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, 2 PCI

I already have a NVIDIA 750 ti 2gb occupying one of the PCIe slots just for a heads up.

The dual band wireless I want to install is TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter, and I was wondering if I would be able to do it or if I possibly need some other wireless adapter. Please I need help ASAP. :)
 
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Yes it will work no problem.
Taking it down a level, the slot the graphics card goes in is an x16 lane, that is the size of the slot, and how much data it can process.
The second x16 slot is the same size, but it can only process x4 data (1/4 the bandwidth of the top slot). For a graphics card, you want x16 or x8. For wifi cards x4 is more than you will need. No bottleneck.
That card should handle those speeds easy.
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That card runs on a PCIex1 interface, so you can plug it into the second PCIe x16 lane (running in x4 mode).
The card is shorter than the slot, and only uses the connections it needs/has. The slot also has 4x the bandwidth needed.

I was considering that card when I bought my adapter.
 
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So this is compatible with my mobo?

I'm sorry I'm relatively knew to what you're saying lol, what exactly do you mean by running in x4 mode? Will that degrade performance?

I mainly need this because for whatever reason my uploads are at 2.5 when they should be hire and for whatever reason my cable company is saying I should be receiving about 6 when they checked today through the wifi. Would this little thing be able to support that?

(Sorry for all the questions, just curious before I buy anything)
 
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Yes it will work no problem.
Taking it down a level, the slot the graphics card goes in is an x16 lane, that is the size of the slot, and how much data it can process.
The second x16 slot is the same size, but it can only process x4 data (1/4 the bandwidth of the top slot). For a graphics card, you want x16 or x8. For wifi cards x4 is more than you will need. No bottleneck.
That card should handle those speeds easy.
 
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Okay cool thank you so much :) The picture just throws me off cause it doesn't look like it'll fit in such a big slot.
 
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Yes I kept looking at it and wondering if that's what it's supposed to look like.

But apparently if that's what it's supposed to be like then so be it :) I'm assuming there's just going to be excess space left on that PCIe slot?
 
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Thank you so much for all your help :) I appreciate it.
 
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