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Andrew13

Andrew13

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Does anyone know if they come with onboard wireless networking or if an aftermarket card would need to be bought and installed? or a usb receiver, for example..

Also, would they be able to take the standard networking cable with rj45 connectors?

Another question, for those of you who use a BT HomeHub 2 (the sorta curved rectangle one, has the hub phone in the middle) would a wireless b/g networking card be able to receive the network broadcast from that? (WPA2-PSK encrypted)

Mainly curious as i recently ordered the Arkham Destructor system (huge thanks to those who helped me with the 600£ budget post i made earlier, but i found 130£ in my jeans pocket and went with the Destructor to save myself the potential mishaps of building my first pc), and being a pillock i didnt check to make sure i had a long enough bit of cable to run from the router to my room..

Did order a 20m bit of rj45ed cable to eventually get it on wired, but i cant go without net for a few days :(
 
Usually you would have to buy an aftermarket card.

Who uses a rj45 connector anymore, it is all ethernet cables these days??? Are you running dialup for something?

To get the best out of the homehub, I would recommend using G/N (Mainly N) as it is faster than G and B is rarely used anymore. N allows upto 300mbps.
 
As standard all pcs have ethernet but you can get wireless adaptors from ocuk for quite cheap that will do the job.
 
CinderzFTW said:
Usually you would have to buy an aftermarket card.

Who uses a rj45 connector anymore, it is all ethernet cables these days??? Are you running dialup for something?

To get the best out of the homehub, I would recommend using G/N (Mainly N) as it is faster than G and B is rarely used anymore. N allows upto 300mbps.
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RJ 45 is an ethernet connection.

RJ 11 is for the telephone i believe.

You will not get any benefit from a wireless N type card unless your router uses N.
 
I've always used wireless dongles. You may get better signal with the larger antenna and greater power of a card, but I've always used a dongle and it's fine.
 
USB Dongles tend to be slower than PCI Wireless Cards.

You will always get better signal and faster network access using a PCI card! USB dongles are not great for gaming in my opinion. They are ok but if you are a serious gamer who uses wireless, always get a PCI card.
 
esK` said:
Any serious gamer would use wires ;)
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That's what I was thinking :cool:

You will get better signal and a higher throughput CinderzFTW, but if the link isn't saturating anyway then why do you need it? Transferring files between machines is the only thing I can think of.
 
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