150mbps or 300mbps?

Moonpie2

Moonpie2

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I have a 10M internet line at home and am undecided whether to get a 150mbps wireless card or a 300mbps one.

Do I even need a 300mbps one?
Or does it just sound better because it's a higher number :D
 
Go for 300 anyway, but your router needs to do 40mhz to get any benefit from it, and if it's on the 2.4g band then it will be using up a lot of bandwidth. You'll probably get a lot of interference if there are other routers about.
 
uvarvu said:
You never actually achieve that speed in reality so bigger is better.
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Pretty much this, although my signal quality isn't great being quite far away from the router i get about 12MB/s transfer speeds on the wireless LAN. Thats on a 5Ghz network (the only one around my house), forced 802.11n, and few other tweaks to maximize throughput. Even under theoretically optimal conditions I'd only hope to get a maximum of 18MB/s using 300Mbps adapters :(
 
Assuming that you can't or don't want to go wired, go 300 and go 5Ghz, as for why?

I can currently see 18 2.4Ghz networks while sat in my living room, this makes for very poor performance as the channels are very crowded. As for 5Ghz networks I can see only one, which is mine :)
 
Thanks for tall the info guys.
I'll go for 300mbps :)

To all the people who suggested wires.... try commenting on people's topics where they ask for suggestions about wires..... seriously !!
 
Just to add that wireless works for most but it wasn't working for streaming my HD media. 300mbps network with a good signal but it wanted to buffer every few mins. I got the 200mbps powerline and it's rock solid.
 
I was getting 28meg download over wireless but wired I get 105meg.

I may wire up to my sonos system and see how fast sonosnet is.

However wireless was fine for me until I realised how much speed I wasn't getting
 
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