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drowd
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25 Aug 2003, 5:22pm

802.11g wireless bridge versus 802.11g wirless gaming adapter . . .

does anybody know the actual difference? here are links to the specific products i am talking about.

gaming adapter

wireless bridge

anyway, here is the thing, the gaming adapter is much cheaper, but i dont know what else is incorporated with it that might restrict its access. when i asked some folks at the "friendly" best buy, they said that the gaming adapters are only for internet and i should get an 802.11b gaming adapter anyway, cuz internet surfing on your console wont get any faster than that connection. but i want to be able to transfer file to my console at the rate of 54g. its not just for browsing the internet for me, and i was curious if anybody had any experience with either of these two products. basically, i want to know if the gaming adapter will work just as well for another computer or if there is something hinky about it that will keep it from doing what i want it to do. thanks a lot guys . . .
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28 Aug 2003, 1:45pm
nobody has any ideas?! looks like its time to go to best buy, pick em both up, and try em out. and i will be sure to hang on to that receipt, cuz i may not keep either of em (especially if i can find them cheaper online). oh well . . .
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19 Sep 2003, 12:02am
i mean, i know folks were waiting with baited breath about whether the game adapters would werk, and the answer is yes. they will. so now you dont have to buy that expensive wireless bridge, you can just get the wireless game adapter . . . since you wanted to know . . . and stuff . . .
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20 Sep 2003, 3:16pm
aww no one replied to your post

i was gonna post a topic about wireless networkin actually.... im gonna get broadband and ive bean told its faster to connect multiple computers using internet sharing and using one PC as the host for the connection.

Was wonderin if wireless networking is anygood / pro's n con's etc. is it fast and reliable enough?

any feedback would be apprececiated
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21 Sep 2003, 1:23am
Originally posted by SteTheDude
im gonna get broadband and ive bean told its faster to connect multiple computers using internet sharing and using one PC as the host for the connection.
Actually the fastest method is a Broadband Router and a switch with all the machines plugged into it.

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SteTheDude
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21 Sep 2003, 1:34pm
hmm i better look into this, different people saying different things. Is there a vast difference in the speed by the way other people connect to it?

im still strokin my chin about gettin a USB ADSL modem or a PCI one, ive not got USB 2.0 on this mobo, dont know if that will affect speed in any way.
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21 Sep 2003, 3:54pm
I would say DON"T get anything networking related that has anything to do with USB if you can help it. Get a cheap pci 10/100 nic card and an ethernet switch/router for your network. You'll be glad you did. Usb uses too many system resources to be as fast and easy to set up as an ethernet system would be.

Just my $.02.


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