wireless card fast enough?

S.A.S · 28 May 2009 at 07:56

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-007-BE

is this wireless card fast enough to work with my virgin media 20MB, and my netgear rangemax wireless g router?

im looking to only spend up to 20 pounds? is there any better ones than that ?

also are the usb ones slower than the PCI ones?

shadowake · 28 May 2009 at 07:59

Should be it's wireless G. As long as you don't switch to the 50MB as that uses wireless N (although you get a free adaptor with it).

dazzerd · 28 May 2009 at 08:34

No I doubt it will be, I have 20 mb Virgin and on my laptop I only get about half of the maximum download speed about 1.1 mb per sec whilst on my main pc which is through the ethernet I get the full speed about 2.2mb per second.

In thoery the maxium bandwidth the Wireless G standard has is 50mb (I think) however in practice I think your lucky to get about 12mb due to overheads etc.

shadowake · 28 May 2009 at 09:21

dazzerd said:
No I doubt it will be, I have 20 mb Virgin and on my laptop I only get about half of the maximum download speed about 1.1 mb per sec whilst on my main pc which is through the ethernet I get the full speed about 2.2mb per second.

In thoery the maxium bandwidth the Wireless G standard has is 50mb (I think) however in practice I think your lucky to get about 12mb due to overheads etc.

Agree with that, you will get much faster on ethernet. On my 50mb, I get about 45-48MB on my desktop, 6-8MB on my iPhone and about 20-25 on my wireless n laptop. Vast differences as you can see!