Did I spend too much for...

[BradBo]

my Linksys Wireless Router?
I finally bought a router and a card for my Dell laptop.
It a Linksys-G 4 port wireless router.(WKPC54G)
I spent $160.00 dollars out the door,this incliudes the laptop card.
The problem is I am seeing D-Link routers for much less and some of the model seems to be twice as fast (at least that what they advertise) as the Linksys.
Is Linksys that good or am I sort of buying the name?

I am not real savy about wireless stuff but I dont want to just throw money away.
Thanks
Brad

 

[BradBo]

Never mind.I should have done some searching first.My question was answered by Caveman with this great post.


"I doubt you'll ever see 90Mbps w/ a 802.11g device. The MAX for them is 54Mbps. I know that D-Link and others tout that you can receive higher than that, but g is only MEANT to go UP TO 54 Mbps which should be MORE than enough when it comes to the Internet. I don't know of ANY cable connection which runs faster than 10Mbps, so even if your only running that you'll have a good high speed connection. The only thing you might be missing out on is the speed when transferring files between machines.
Hope this helps clear some things up for you..."

Thanks