wireless Card

wakandem

The easiest way to do it is with usb adapters.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/107691

or internal

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/103208

totalsolutions

hi SMC-- hows the search going? Cable is good and cheap.
There is a serious problem with usb/wireless adaptors in gereral, and that is speed.
Cable runs 100Mbits / second
Wireless runs at max 54Mbits / second
Wireless between another wireless unit is 10Mbits / second (They dont tell you that!)
Also out now is the 1Gbit cable speed. that needs a different cat5e or cat6 I think.
Bring in some signal loss factor in some distance's and interference and a usb stick not logging in or failing to load up on startup and your network will fall apart in seconds. The speed I quoted are the manufacturers max spped in the lab. in the wild these will be much lower. Go cable..no problems.

espresso

totalsolutions wrote: »

Wireless runs at max 54Mbits / second
Wireless between another wireless unit is 10Mbits / second (They dont tell you that!)

Can you elaborate on what they don't tell you then?

totalsolutions

The connection speed between any two pc's will a maximum of 10Mbits the original 802.11a spec.
The connection from a pc to the access point/router would be 54Mb
There is a difference and with the overhead + traffic on the network the whole thing can crawl. HTH

espresso

totalsolutions wrote: »

The connection speed between any two pc's will a maximum of 10Mbits the original 802.11a spec.

Why when the maximum data rate for 802.11a is 54Mbs supporting a typical actual throughput of 23Mbs?

The connection from a pc to the access point/router would be 54Mb

Depends on what spec WiFi is in use e.g. 802.11g, 802.11n etc.

There is a difference and with the overhead + traffic on the network the whole thing can crawl.

HTH

Not really, I think that you are misinformed.

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ormus

the maximum data transfer rate is at the slowest point in the network.
if using typical NICs, then yes its limited to 10mbps. (ie ethernet cable).

espresso

ormus wrote: »

the maximum data transfer rate is at the slowest point in the network.
if using typical NICs, then yes its limited to 10mbps. (ie ethernet cable).

The question was regarding totalsolutions post #13 - 802.11a wireless speeds.

totalsolutions

thanks ormus, I was trying to explain the maximum of the minimum level to myself and you achieved it admiraly, but its still 10 Mbits, espresso Sir.

stashmycash

totalsolutions wrote: »

hi SMC-- hows the search going? Cable is good and cheap.
There is a serious problem with usb/wireless adaptors in gereral, and that is speed.
Cable runs 100Mbits / second
Wireless runs at max 54Mbits / second
Wireless between another wireless unit is 10Mbits / second (They dont tell you that!)
Also out now is the 1Gbit cable speed. that needs a different cat5e or cat6 I think.
Bring in some signal loss factor in some distance's and interference and a usb stick not logging in or failing to load up on startup and your network will fall apart in seconds. The speed I quoted are the manufacturers max spped in the lab. in the wild these will be much lower. Go cable..no problems.

Thanks for your advice.
I am going to try the adapters and see what they are like.If they are rubbish I will try something else.

totalsolutions

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