Wireless vs Wired.

[TheSock]

I'm currently running a wired system, but I'm wondering how much of a difference I will see if I run wireless internet. I wouldn't be far from the terminal (20 ft with a wooden wall in between).

[spartan]

If everything works out alright, the only area you'll see any decreased preformance is in file transfers, most likely over a LAN.

I can do anything else wirelessly without too much headache. You get disconnected every now and again for random reasons but that goes without saying.


If you do go wireless, stay away from Pre-N or Draft N based products. They'll work fine for today, but no guarantees they'll work on real N hardware whenever it becomes standardized.

[Lusty_Muffins]

If everything works out alright, the only area you'll see any decreased preformance is in file transfers, most likely over a LAN.


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[spartan]

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Lots of stuff could go wrong - I've had problems with routers and antennas and adapaters of all shapes and sizes, I've even had some LinkSys stuff that is normally top notch fail outright on me. Ideally everything should work fine out of the box, but sometimes you get unlucky. Or in my case, you could sometimes be unlucky fairly often.

[Glock23]

I would expect to see some latency issues across the board. If you have a choice, go wired because it eliminates the possible problems that could arise.

[TheSock]

I kind of have a choice, which is stay where I am and be wired, or go in my room and be wireless. We're running a Linksys wireless G router right now, so I would just have to add the card. Anything else that I should know?

BTW +rep for the help dudes :D

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- Glock because I already +repped him. Sucka!

[GrosPoisson]

I've got a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router and for the past three years I've been using it I've never had any real problems with it. Signal strength is good throughout the house, little to no packet loss, high-bandwidth online games run just fine. The installation CD that came with it was entirely worthless and didn't do anything, but a little asking around was enough to allow me to get the thing up and running perfectly.