Wireless usb adapter

What's it for? PC? Laptop?

For a PC your best bet is to buy a proper PCI wifi card with an external aerial.

For a laptop i'd seriously consider a PCMCIA card wifi adaptor, because I feel that using up USB ports for something that can use otherwise unwanted PCMCIA slots is real waste.
 
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Not used the micro type like that but at the moment I'm using a Netgear wifi adapter on a desktop. Was going to get a PCI card but had the usb laying in a draw so used that instead. Works fine, good signal. Think it was about £10 off ebay.
 
Sister in Law uses a netgear one which is a lot bigger and work fine.
 
I use the usb wifi dongle that virginmedia supply.
Basically similar in size to the netgear variants above and it works like a charm.
Plug and play stuff!
 
Lyonspride said:
What's it for? PC? Laptop?

For a PC your best bet is to buy a proper PCI wifi card with an external aerial.

For a laptop i'd seriously consider a PCMCIA card wifi adaptor, because I feel that using up USB ports for something that can use otherwise unwanted PCMCIA slots is real waste.
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Sony_SoFar said:
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These days everything uses USB, I personally would go for the PCI card option, they're not expensive, but they might help save you having to buy a USB hub in future, youd just be using an unused connector inside the the PC instead of a USB port. Great thing with external aerials is they can be replaced with bigger ones if the signal quality is poor.
 
I'm using a similar dongle and just as small and it works fine up to 5-10 feet with my router (not a very powerful one).

Also works fine on my netbook and is so small almost impossible to accidentally damage it.

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