need help getting wifi onto my new pc

TwistNut

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Hello guys am buying a new pc and have chosen matx motherboard
*MSI AMD Ryzen B450M BAZOOKA AM4 Micro ATX Motherboard*

It does not come with wifi so I need to add wifi to the pc

I have looked at USB wifi adapters, are these any good?

Is there another way with this board I can add wifi?

Any help much appreciated

Darren



 
If you'll be picky about latency/reliability it might be worth getting a PCIe card. They can be had anywhere from £10-50.

Personally I use a little USB dongle on some machines and a card on others. The dongle has never given me many issues but I don't do much online gaming.
 
The choice boils down to external USB dongles or internal PCI expansion cards. Either work fine, just get a decent dual band one. I've got 3 TP-Link Archer T9UHs on my systems at home and they all work brilliantly well
 
Pci card is preferable, neater ,doesn't take up a USB slot that way, and I don't know if it's me but I find them more reliable.

I have an old cheap USB one and it doesn't always initialise properly requiring a reboot or disable/re-enable it in device manager to get it to work.. So I'm going to replace it with a Pci card one when I get around to it
 
I have used power line before, it’s excellent, due to where my router is in the living room the adapter would stick out like a sore thumb however so like ExRayTed above I use a TP-Link T9UH at the moment which seems to work equally well.

Only reason I didn’t go for for PCI-E were that if I went SLI again I wouldn’t have the space and the last PCI-E card I tried stopped my system from POSTing.... otherwise no preference either way really
 
I've got a Netgear A7000 AC1900 USB 3.0 adapter. I get my full internet download and upload speeds of 236Mbps down 47Mbps up and the only difference between using a cable is the ping time is 2.5ms instead of about 1.5ms with the cable. In gaming I get between 21ms to 28ms which is perfectly fine.
 
As mentioned above I'd use a power line adapter AKA a home plug.

I bought a 2nd hand one because my old 802.11g card was only giving me 2mb/'s upstairs.

As soon as I plugged it in I was getting my full 100mb/'s. It is just as good as being hardwired into the router.

Cost effective too you can get them for roughly £20.
 
Nikumba said:
Do powerline devices work over different ring mains?
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I have 2 rings and (original circuit / new circuit) each is run from a 30mA trip. The wifi does not travel between powerline adapters on the different rings - i.e. the circuit breaker stops the wifi - probably got some coils which scramble the signal. Mel
 
If you are running Linux you can install a bluepy module that can help you receive Internet via Bluetooth. There is always a workaround if you build your own ;)
 
Another work around, if you have an old/spare router handy you might be able to use it as a wireless bridge.
I did it a year or two ago with my old sky router which they never asked for back when I left them.
Lots of guides on Internet for this, doesn't work on all routers though.
 
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