Wireless Card

[Ewan]

Ok, I need to buy a PCI wireless card for my PC at uni.

I need it to be:

PCI card
108mb/s
Support WPA+WEP Encryption
802.11g

Any ideas? I can only seem to find 54mb/s ones which support WEP only.

[geekbot]

As far as I know 108 mbps is not a standard. D-Link was the first that I saw with what they called "Extreme". It was a standard 54 mpbs with 802.11g routers but when used with a D-Link router (i.e. D-Link router and adapter) it kicked it up a notch for double speed 108. I didn't think anyone else did this but a quick search of Amazon shows that Netgear does this now too.

But the point is you will only see 108 if the router *and* adapter are the same and support it.

That said, the internet is generally very slow compared to your wireless link. If you have above 11 mbps (802.11b) you won't see the speed because the bottleneck is elsewhere. You *will* see it for local network stuff. Like LAN gaming (not Continuum), local file sharing, etc.

Don't know anything about WPA but I would guess that most support it. Here's a linkie: http://www.wireless.ubc.ca/wpa/#WPA Compliant Wireless Cards

Cheers.

[Darkmoor]

Yep, that 108 Mbps is a non-standard proprietary technology known as "rate doubling". All devices in the network have to support it otherwise it cannot be used.