buying advice

[ablevy]

I'm in the process of purchasing a Linksys 320N router and went looking for a dual band adapter for my desktop. Unfortunately, the linksys PCI adapters aren't in stock anywhere. Are the USB adapters as fast as the PCI adapters? How about interoperability between various manufacturers? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Alan

 

[thiggins]

PCI adapters are dying out. USB adapters provide more physical placement flexibility and are cheaper to make. Although I have not tested any draft 11n PCI adapters, I have found USB adapters to provide good performance.

Interoperability has improved and as long as you get a Wi-Fi certified for Draft 2.0 802.11n product (which all products from the major manfs are) you should be ok.

I had good luck with a Netgear WNDA3100 dual-band USB.

 

[stephenju]

NewEgg has refurb WNDA3100 for sale at $25 right now. Grabbed 2 of them to test out a ad hoc bridged to wired set up.

They have other refurb Netgear stuffs for good prices too.