Best Wifi USB adapter?

[ps3ud0]

Hi Guys,

Hoping you can point me in the right direction - looking to get a Wifi USB adapter for a laptop and was going to get a Linksys one but thought Id check to see what the best out there.

Need it for a laptop so could use a PC card one but thought the USB would be fine. Needs to have good connection and reliability...

Whats good out there (not interested in N support, but needs to work on XP and hopefully Vista)

Thanks

ps3ud0

 

[FrenchTart]

According to ye olde wokfi article website, the ALFA AWUS036H is quite a nice looking adaptor...

 

[ps3ud0]

Whats this one like?

http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/S...nksys/Common/VisitorWrapper&lid=9232260558B34

Found it somewhere quite cheap...

According to ye olde wokfi article website, the ALFA AWUS036H is quite a nice looking adaptor...

Bit out of my price range - cant find it under £50...

ps3ud0

 

[FrenchTart]

Bit out of my price range - cant find it under £50...

ps3ud0

Yeah...Same here tbh. I'd love to have a play with it and my wokfi dish though

No idea /re the adaptor you posted I'm afraid. Could be okay...

 

[ps3ud0]

I clicked a few photos but the people on there scared me ...

Love the geeky calculations on some of them...

ps3ud0

 

[FrenchTart]

I'm a bit too lazy/have pretensions to non-geekery for quite *that* much detail. I did have fun with wokfi a while back though: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17601109

 

[ps3ud0]

Imagine trying that with WiMax tech

Could get the majority of South England under one transmitter

ps3ud0

 

[darko]

Had 4 different usb adapters in the past from Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and belkin and they have all been completely crap. usb really doesnt lend itself to this application. get a pcmcia card and you will be laughing

 

[ps3ud0]

What did you go with in the end darko? Are PC Cards more harder to setup?

Thanks

ps3ud0