Wireless adapters - PCI over USB yeah?

Scam · 21 Jun 2008 at 14:27

Am i right in thinking it'd be better to get a PCI wireless card over a USB dongle thing? I've just moved into a new house and they have Virgin internet with a D-Link wireless router. The first D-Link PCI card i found online was the D-Link AirPlus-G DWL-G510. Is this any good?

Thanks.

Theguy · 21 Jun 2008 at 15:06

I have always prefered PCI to usb, maybe its just an old school boy habit.
I still have in my mind though that usb uses more cpu then pci cards.. not sure if thats true these days.

Dogoid · 21 Jun 2008 at 15:19

Theguy said:
I have always prefered PCI to usb, maybe its just an old school boy habit.
I still have in my mind though that usb uses more cpu then pci cards.. not sure if thats true these days.

it still is true but years ago it was important to preserve all the cpu cycles , today not so true as the impact on performance a usb stick has is very very small compared to the total power of a computer.

Duke · 21 Jun 2008 at 15:31

PCI all the time. Most cards share similar chipsets (intel, realtek, broadcom etc) so not much difference between then.

Theguy · 21 Jun 2008 at 15:38

Or if you get a 1quid wireless card like i did... ralink.. heh, not the best in the world but does 50mb.

Scam · 24 Jun 2008 at 00:16

Well thanks for the replies but my Dad had a spare USB card/thing so i'll be using that unless it turns out to be flaky.