I used to have a trendnet 802.11g wireless router. I eventually got fed up with it, what with it restarting often and being really just quite an ass regarding ports and all that. So today I got a Linksys WRT160N-CA, a 802.11n wireless router. However, I still have my trendnet 802.11g PCI wireless adapter in my PC. It's a decent card, from what I know.

However, I am curious about how much better it'd be if I also got a 802.11n wireless adapter. Do any of you guys know?




ps: the one I have in mind is this one



edit: The reason I am questionning myself about this is because I keep reading of how good and long the range of my new router is, yet I am two rooms away in a relatively medium/small sized 5 1/2 appartment and the signal is mostly always Fair or Good (2 or 3 bars out of 5). :/

Is your computer in a cabinet or anything?

Also, wireless n may not improve your reception, just your speed of transfer. Your connectivity is determined by the style and quality of the antenna and the wireless card hardware as well as your router's ability to broadcast. In that regard upgrading to a wireless n antenna may not solve your problems.

Ah, good. No money wasted.


Also while it's not in a cabinet, it's unfortunately in a very closed environment. I guess that might be why.

try to visualize the walls and barriers your signal travels to to reach the router, and you'll have a good idea of what to do to help minimize that.

N is kind of a ridiculous future specification at the moment and not at all useful for 99.9% of home users. Wireless G is actually faster than most people can take advantage of, so you can see why wireless transfer speeds really aren't any sort of bottleneck at the moment.

idk if Linksys is just outright LYING but they are marketing Wireless N pretty hard as ONE BILLION TIMES STRONGER etc than G. I bought a Wireless N router and usb adaptor for my PC and had nothing but problems with it, despite there only really being ONE WALL between me and the router (and about 25-30 feet of open space I'd say). The Linksys was basically touted in their spiel as being faster with a vastly stronger signal and I just wasn't seeing it, at all. I got so sick of it that I just sprung for like 50 ft of cat5e cable and poked a hole in the wall to string it.

Basically I saw zero advantage to the wireless N technology and would've had the same, potentially even better results from G I think. In fact, I ran the router on G for awhile (had the option of B/G or N) and got the same results I think. It was also required because the XBOX 360 wireless adaptor doesn't recognize N.

I don't think anything about N increases signal strength, to be honest. I'm not certain so if I'm wrong then I'm wrong.

A router I just purchased has an amp on it and it is fantastic. The range is quite incredible considering it's using an omni directional antenna. That's one thing you can try doing - changing the antenna to push the signal in one direction only.

be honesty,your choice is very smart .

gemini112?

As Tayla Green said The Linksys was basically touted in their spiel as being faster with a vastly stronger signal and I just wasn't seeing it, at all. I got so sick of it that I just sprung for like 50 ft of cat5e cable and poked a hole in the wall to string it. its better to go with