[TriLUG] desktop wireless NIC

[John Franklin]

On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 00:56 US/Eastern, Jason Tower wrote:

> question for all you wireless folks out there: if you needed to set up 
> a
> desktop PC with a wireless connection, would you use a PCI card or USB
> adapter?  any particular make/model?  thanks in advance -

Without knowing anything about the quirks of either solution, I would 
lean towards a PCI card for three reasons:

1. One fewer artifact cluttering up my desk.
2. Depending on how they're both implemented, the USB solution may 
require more drivers be loaded increasing the number of modes of 
failure.  The USB solution will require PCI->USB root->USB bus->(USB 
hub->)* USB Prism2 vs. PCI->[ CardBus adapter->CardBus Bus-> ] PCI 
Prism2
3. The USB wireless NIC would, under load, consume most of the 
bandwidth of the USB bus, where it wouldn't even come close to 
saturating the PCI bus.

jf
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