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Dongle for PC
18-03-2012 1:45 PM
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Re: Dongle for PC
18-03-2012 4:43 PM
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It connects to your telephone line (ADSL2), not to an ethernet style connection from your cable modem.
BTW I doubt that a N150 device ever reaches 150Mbs - the g standard is supposed to be able to do 54Mbs, but is lucky to achive 20Mbs.
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Re: Dongle for PC
18-03-2012 10:48 PM
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the clue is in this bit......
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My PC is not adapted for wireless broadband
Re: Dongle for PC
18-03-2012 11:50 PM
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If you really want to go wireless, you'll need to select wireless adapter which supports 802.11N at 300mbs. and for a desktop PC, you'd be better off with an internal card than a USB dongle.
Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 12:06 AM
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Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 6:47 AM
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Quote from: kmilburn ... you'd be better off with an internal card than a USB dongle.
This statement is often made on this forum but I do not see why it should be true.
Any device that lets you move the aerial away from the computer chassis will be much better than a device that does not. With a USB dongle you can always use a USB extension cable to do this; many USB dongles are supplied with their own extension lead and stand.
Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 7:46 AM
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The other reason is that the computer may struggle to move 300Mbps over USB, it is less than the 480Mbps maximum bandwidth of USB2, but there is the USB protocol overhead, USB bandwidth may be shared between several devices, and transferring a lot of data over USB eats up a lot of CPU time.
Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 8:00 AM
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My current favorite is the Netgear WNCE2001 - http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/hometheater/networking-for-home-theater-and-gaming/WNCE2001.a...
Another advantage of using a wireless bridge (instead of USB dongle) is that as your requirements expand and you want to connect more networked items, such as printers or NAS drives, then instead of having the bridge plugged directly into the PC all you do is add a network switch and plug the bridge into the upstream port - then you can have a cluster of wireless connected equipment.
The other option to consider is mains homeplugs such as Devolo - http://www.devolo.co.uk/consumer/dlan-mains-supply-network-fastest-200-mbit.html?l=en
If you live in built up area where there are lots of houses with wireless connections, then your own wireless link will have to compete for wireless channel space with your neighbours and possibly suffer poor throughput. By using mains networking you avoid this issue.
Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 1:03 PM
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Quote from: ejs Well, one reason is that the internal integrated antenna of a USB stick may be fairly poor, so no matter where you put the stick it still won't be very good.
I don't buy this. The best aerial may struggle when stuck behind the large metal box that is the chassis of a full-size desktop computer.
Quote from: ejs The other reason is that the computer may struggle to move 300Mbps over USB, it is less than the 480Mbps maximum bandwidth of USB2, but there is the USB protocol overhead, USB bandwidth may be shared between several devices, and transferring a lot of data over USB eats up a lot of CPU time.
I can see this might be a problem if you really did achieve a data rate of 300Mbps, but how often does this happen?
Re: Dongle for PC
19-03-2012 7:10 PM
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Re: Dongle for PC
20-03-2012 9:15 AM
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When I moved to fibre last month my adapter became the weak link in the chain. I was getting 36mbs wired and 12mbps with my adapter. I could get 25mbps on my wife's laptop. I bought a new adapter Netgear WNA1100 N150 for about £25 from Scan Computers. I now get 33mbps download speed wirelessly.
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