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Wireless Seeding
Arveene:
--- Quote from: xtras on August 24, 2009, 09:43:33 PM ---I want to move my desktop upstairs into my room, and out of the study room where we have our dsl converter box. We have a wireless router that has yet to fail us, but my concern lies with the adapter. I have an Atheros USB 2.0 Wireless Adapter, and I unplugged my ethernet cable and seeded using just the wireless adapter overnight. I checked on it about 14 hours later to find that the internet had disconnected. I felt the adapter and it was burning hot (like seriously...HOT). I reconnected the ethernet cable and everything was fine (proving the router wasn't the problem).
I think I will need a new adapter so I have 2 questions:
1.) Is an on board wireless adapter better than a usb one? Is it more expensive?
2.) Recommend for me a very trustworthy wireless adapter (preferably one that was released only a few years ago and has Wireless N capability)
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Depending on the direction of the study room in relation to the position of your computer you might run into some issue. You're going to need to take into account how many walls, giant metal things, and just general distance is between your desktop and your wireless card. I've been running into issues myself with trying to wirelessly connect my HTPC to my network. I finally managed to get a decent signal when I used a Linksys PCI wireless card with a Zonet high-gain antenna that has a base stationed away from the card / computer itself. Your desktop itself will most likely cause a lot of interference.
With that being said, it's probably one of the easier / cheapest methods to try. I personally would suggest running a wire through the walls if at all possible, but you will also run into a distance limit there as well.
Edit: I'd highly suggest wireless-n if your router is capable. I get 2 bars on my HTPC but it's a 80 mbps signal. If it was running g there's no way I'd be able to do any streaming, using N I've been able to stream 1080p with no issues on a fairly bad signal.
billlanam:
Distance with wires is no problem I have a 100 ft. cable connecting a computer to my router.
Arveene:
--- Quote from: billlanam on August 25, 2009, 08:35:42 AM ---Distance with wires is no problem I have a 100 ft. cable connecting a computer to my router.
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Actually the limit for CAT-5(maybe CAT-6 as well) cables is about 300ft.
Viseroid:
I'm using a wireless card with my desktop and its doing just as good as a hardline. You can find good reliable wireless desktop cards on Newegg and other compy hardware sites. Don't use a usb adapter, they're horrible - -. You can also just buy ethernet cable and put the plugs on yourself for cheap, however, you'd have an obnoxious blue cable running all over the place :D.
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