Router and a wireless care for my system, help really appreciated

combatadvocate86

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Hi all I recently built my first system, im looking to upgrade my router and add a wireless card to my system. That way I can take my system a couple rooms over from my modem to where my tv is. Any recommendations would be really appreciated, thanks for the help, im gonna posts my system specs incase that effects what card I get.

MB-ASUS P8Z68-M Pro LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
CPU-Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
GPU-EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1582-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support
Ram-G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)
OS- Windows 7 ultimate
 

steimy

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I suppose it really depends on your needs. If you have devices that can use wireless N then you would want a router and card that can both do that. If not you can go with a simple B/G wireless router.

If you don't need wireless N i would say a good bet would be the WRT54GL router by Linksys. It is a solid and reliable router. And i would go with an internal PCI wireless card over the USB style.

For wireless N you could look into something like the Rosewill RNX-N150RT that people seem to like.