City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Wireless adapter

Cade Lawson

By Cade Lawson,
Posted on: 2010-01-07 20:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

So...new i5 machine is built, and everything went well. Rolled right over first time I turned the key. Plugged in my (ancient) wireless adapter and...W7 laughed at me. It's a D-Link DWL-G122 (EOL'd like 3 years ago?). What am I to do? Is there anything I can do to try and coerce W7 to play nicely, or am I going to need to pick up a new device?

If so, what should I be looking at? A cursory search has spat back all kinds of results detailing compatibility issues for wifi adapters with W7. Thoughts? Comments? Father X-Mas? Je Saist?

 

Posted

Wired is much more stable for gaming.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
Wired is much more stable for gaming.
Obviously. Router is two-floors down.

 

Posted

Ever consider powerline adapters? Wired without the Ethernet, using a home's electrical circuit. Provided your router and computer are behind the same breaker box. More expensive for sure, but might be more reliable for a desktop, not prone to wireless interference or neighboring APs, typically better throughput than 802.11g, and expandable.

More importantly, no drivers to install.

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Aren't new wireless adapters just $25?
For 802.11g, yes. For 802.11n, especially multi-band, you're looking at at least $50. But I suspect our friend here is just looking for G.

Would be nice to know what the wireless signal strength is first, just to see what sort of a link speed one could et two floors up. However, I suppose one could just buy an effective but inexpensive wireless adapter and go from there - they can always be used elsewhere.

Or you could get an effective but inexpensive wireless adapter that supports 802.11n, since N is backwards compatible with 802.11g. This one looks decent enough, plus if the OP decides to upgrade his wireless in the future, the adapter will probably support it. And it supports dual bands to boot it seems (300Mbps). If so, then great price.