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Hi All Wifi then! I have a Netgear DGN 2200: https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-DGN2200-100UKS-Wi-Fi-Modem-Router/dp/B003FS40KU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541239381&sr=8-1&keywords=dgn2200+netgear It is not a brilliant router as it still relies on 100mbs Ethernet. Should I look to upgrade this item first? Thanks On 01/11/2018 10:42 pm, mr meowski
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On 01/11/2018 20:51, Richard Brown wrote:Hi Again I think I ought to add.... I know about B, G and N. After that what should I consider. If 300mbs is slow, what would now be a good wifi speed please? Do I look at security with the card or should that be locked down by the router? When I look at this page by Amazon: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_n_1?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A430513031%2Ck%3Awifi+card&keywords=wifi+card&ie=UTF8&qid=1541105021&rnid=1642204031 It has a confusing array of cheap and not so cheap cards including the one I bought that is actually Amazon's choice!Cost/benefit ratio analysis time! Take stock of what your usage model is, what wireless standards your existing gear supports and what you plan to utilise it for over the next few years. For example I personally want absolute maximum firepower, every single possible bell and whistle and enterprise level features over an entire property with a lot of stuff connected. Budget for me is obviously an issue but as this is a once every decade sort of event complete with running cables through walls and installing a patch panel and so on, budget is secondary to pretty much everything else. I do _not_ want to have to repeat this in 18 months because I half arsed it. Additionally I'm expecting to have AC wifi gear capable of over 1Gbps before long, to pump multiple simultaneous 4K streams, run continuous backups and a whole lot more. You're probably not looking for quite the same level of kit. If the new wifi unit is just to connect your workstation to your existing router (which quite possibly only runs at 300Mbps anyway, although I'd hope not) in the same room and you see it providing more than enough throughput for your needs in the foreseeable future then you know what? Maybe you genuinely just don't need to overthink this or spend excessive cash. Having a good muse over what you actually want/need from your gear before pulling the trigger on buying it is a really good idea to get everything straightened out in your head beforehand. Speaking personally I'm a but rubbish at this and tend to get really bogged down in the technical minutiae... So don't worry too much about every single detail, just define what is you want first and _then_ go shopping for it afterwards (basically the opposite of what I usually do). Check your router first of all to see just what it's capabilities are and unless you want to rip that out and replace it as well or add an extra AP, that'll inform your decision more than anything else. Linux compatible USB wifi adapters fortunately aren't expensive so you can afford to future proof a little bit without breaking the bank though. Security happens elsewhere in the stack so don't worry about that either (other than avoiding crappy manufacturers with bad reps for updating and/patching vulns - like TP-link for example). Feel free to post your exact router model if you like so we can check it's capabilities. Cheers PS: that card would have worked out of the box for Windows users to be fair: bear that in mind when retailers blithely promise great support and driver compatibility - they don't mean for us dirty Linux users :| |
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