Best and Cheapest 'N' card

Royal Fleet

Royal Fleet

Royal Fleet

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I have recently set up a HTPC in the lounge. This is some distance from the main house PC, so I have gone wireless. I have a Netgear WNR854T 300Mbps RangeMax NEXT router which has draft N spec included.

To get me up and running I went for a standard network card, which I figured would be quick enough for the small amount of browsing done on the HTPC.

What I had not figured in is the file transfer speed between PC's which means that it takes about an hour to transfer a Gig of data.

I figure therefore I need to bump up the wireless card in the HTPC.

Anyone any recommendations. Not bothered if it is internal or USB.
 
By standard network card are you talking about a wireless adaptor? Bit confused because if you mean a standard 100Mb ethernet card then you should shift 40GB an hour and the actual thoughput of these 300Mb/s wireless networks is actually 75Mb~.
 
It is wireless, I meant the usual b/g stuff that is cheap as chips.

Having done some further reading on this, I am not sure that the issue is not actually related to network problems with file transfers under Vista, than the card. I am going to test by downloading straight from the net, and also by benchmarking against my laptop, which is also wireless.
 
With 802.11g you expect around 18Mb throughput IIRC but that does sound like a lot more than you're getting. There are various tools out there to test throughput. I have ehard of this Vista issue, heard it was resolved with SP1 however?
 
I use with the same router u have and use a rangemax next wn121t, its USB, I use this on a Ps1500 touch screen PC its in the living room at the front off the Houseground floor, the router is in the Bedroom at back off House 1st floor inbetween is a 4 foot depth chimey "not used now"I have a signal at 80 % and transfer speed showing on utility "netgear" at 243 MBps. always find it fast, did a transfer test showing a 699 meg file transfered at 5 halve minutes.
 
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