Connecting a Desktop to WiFi

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This is something I haven't done in years! I have other stuff connected to WiFi but not PC's so I am very out of touch with Wifi cards/dongles.

I have an old PC that I made up from spare parts. It's a first gen i5. It now runs Win10 64 Home and has pci and pci-e slots. It's not used for anything so perofrmance is not important. I just keep it becuase I can't bring myself to throw a working PC out! I store it out the way and just power it up now and then to update things and so on, for which it would be really handy to have a wifi connection so I don't have to move it to the nearest conection point.

Anyway, I notice that there don't really seem to be many internal cards these days and people constantly complain that the ones that are around don't work very well with Win10 ( or are expensive). Does anyone have any suggestoins? Or would I be better just getting a USB one? I mean it seems the spec of USB devices are higher for the same money. Has this type of device taken over from internal cards? There seem to be far more, far newer, and they are far cheaper.
 
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I use a USB based adaptor in my primary system. 0 issues with gaming even online.

I imagine the cheaper USB based ones would work fine for your needs.
 
Which USB adapter or pci would you recommend I have built a pc for my nefew for Xmas, he has an Xbox one at the moment which uses the built in WiFi one the system so looking for some method to connect to their by hub.
 
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As above, pretty much anything with a decently supported chipset in your chosen OS. Bonus points for an external antennae if required.
 
Choimaloy75 said:
So which adapter do you use.
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I use the TP-Link Archer T4UH. Did not mention it as it sounds it may be overkill for your needs, so was more trying to refer to fact I have no real issues with a USB adaptor in my system, worked flawlessly with Windows 7, 8 and no 10.
 
mrbell1984 said:
How about power lines? You would get a much better connection than WiFi.
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That kind of blanket statement is potentially quite misleading. Neither Wi-fi or powerline should be compared to conventional wired connections for any ‘real’ usage, powerline varies massively depending on the circuit.
 
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Buy a long patch lead, no need to move your pc now and then just hook it up, when your done roll up the patch lead and put it some place safe!
 
Avalon said:
That kind of blanket statement is potentially quite misleading. Neither Wi-fi or powerline should be compared to conventional wired connections for any ‘real’ usage, powerline varies massively depending on the circuit.
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Yep you are right. I have a set of power lines/WiFi/Ethernet in a mixed home environment and Ethernet is the most stable while power lines second most stable then third is WiFi. Personally WiFi doesn’t get used for large file transfers but over powelines/Ethernet it’s fine.

I know what you mean though. But most houses have a good circuit.
 
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