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DeathPrincess
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I have the worlds worst reception on my main rig. I have two main desktop computers, The main for video/media production/Games and one for Studio/music/rendering. It's not my house, and i'm not allowed to have cables anywhere, so it's wireless only.
My two rooms are the one directly above the router, and one about 3m down the corridor, about 4m from the router. The furthest room has perhaps 2 solid walls an a floor, the closest has a floor.
Now comes the problem, I had to swap the 2 computers over because of the acoustics in the further room being bad for sound. The computer in the furthest room now gets at most 3 bars of signal however I hold it, left or right. Average is 2. It cuts out at least once per hour on bad days, and stays off for 10 minutes. The music computer never had this trouble.
The music computer is a frankenstein computer based on an HP, which came with an OEM wireless n card. (looks like a mini pcie card you find in a laptop with the wire internal aerial). Everywhere in the house it gets 5 bars.
Now because I forgot all about it, I didn't buy a wireless adapter for the new computer, and so the only card I had was a mini pcie wireless n card. And a Netgear Wireless g PCI card from circa 2003/5 its old. Now it was fine in the room directly above the router with 4/5 bars, but now speed is still fine, but the connection problms are awful. Common logic would say, swap the N card for the G. But the music machine has no PCI slots open. The PCI card is a problem on the main rig because it blocks the Second x16 card slot, so either no SLI or no internet.
So heres the problem. I'm looking for a PCIe Wireless N card. With some problems;
1. Nothing extremely expensive. Or expensive.
2. Must be PCIe. Also wireless N. Need the strength.
3. Must not be an abomination. This is going in a showcase computer that needs to look pretty.
The two i've found for the same price are;
D-LINK Xtreme N Desktop Adapter DWA-556
And
Asus PCE-N13 Wireless.
Plus 400 with giant aerial wire combination things.
I've seen so many mixed reveiws of both, so it's hard to tell if either of them are any good...
Why is it SO hard to find a wireless n card for PCIe.
Would it be better to get a wireless n router (bear in mind this would take lots of convincing and probably wouldn't be allowed. The house owner already thinks im a cyber terrorist because I have a graphics card. Also that people hack into his CRT tv and phone lines...)
Why are pcie cards twice the price of pci cards (apart from economies of scale and people buying lots more pci)?
Thank you!
My two rooms are the one directly above the router, and one about 3m down the corridor, about 4m from the router. The furthest room has perhaps 2 solid walls an a floor, the closest has a floor.
Now comes the problem, I had to swap the 2 computers over because of the acoustics in the further room being bad for sound. The computer in the furthest room now gets at most 3 bars of signal however I hold it, left or right. Average is 2. It cuts out at least once per hour on bad days, and stays off for 10 minutes. The music computer never had this trouble.
The music computer is a frankenstein computer based on an HP, which came with an OEM wireless n card. (looks like a mini pcie card you find in a laptop with the wire internal aerial). Everywhere in the house it gets 5 bars.
Now because I forgot all about it, I didn't buy a wireless adapter for the new computer, and so the only card I had was a mini pcie wireless n card. And a Netgear Wireless g PCI card from circa 2003/5 its old. Now it was fine in the room directly above the router with 4/5 bars, but now speed is still fine, but the connection problms are awful. Common logic would say, swap the N card for the G. But the music machine has no PCI slots open. The PCI card is a problem on the main rig because it blocks the Second x16 card slot, so either no SLI or no internet.
So heres the problem. I'm looking for a PCIe Wireless N card. With some problems;
1. Nothing extremely expensive. Or expensive.
2. Must be PCIe. Also wireless N. Need the strength.
3. Must not be an abomination. This is going in a showcase computer that needs to look pretty.
The two i've found for the same price are;
D-LINK Xtreme N Desktop Adapter DWA-556
And
Asus PCE-N13 Wireless.
Plus 400 with giant aerial wire combination things.
I've seen so many mixed reveiws of both, so it's hard to tell if either of them are any good...
Why is it SO hard to find a wireless n card for PCIe.
Would it be better to get a wireless n router (bear in mind this would take lots of convincing and probably wouldn't be allowed. The house owner already thinks im a cyber terrorist because I have a graphics card. Also that people hack into his CRT tv and phone lines...)
Why are pcie cards twice the price of pci cards (apart from economies of scale and people buying lots more pci)?
Thank you!
