I am in a situation where I will not be able to to wire my desktop anymore due to shitty apartment regulators moving residents to WiFi only. What's the best pci-e wifi card do you recommend that's good all around? I have used a 5ghz usb one for a while but I lost it recently during move in. It was alright but that was when I had a personal router, which will not be the case this time around.
I am considering (pic related):
Thoughts?
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Op here, to add on to this, I am currently using a wifi extender that lets me wire into it and bridge wifi connections. Its ok, but when playing games I teleport all over the place.
An actual good card in a PCIe to miniPCIe adapter
I have exactly that card and it works fine for me
The computer is 15ft away from the signal through iron window bars, and I can still play shit like DOTA 2.
they let you have wifi in jail?
There are also a handful of these on eBay cheaper than the amazon prices:
Thoughts?
>apartment regulators moving residents to WiFi only.
How is this possible?
If you get cable... you don't need their shitty Wifi
>paying money to be on someone else's managed Wifi
>forcing you to send your data to someone besides your cable company
In the U.S. this would be illegal for about 50 reasons.
>every resident trying to share one wifi connection
jesus christ
I am in the US, and trust me I know. I hate where I am at but they switched this up on us right after I signed the fucking lease. The ISP is Apogee which funnels spectrum through their own security bullshit.
No I mean the modem is mounted near the window a floor below me, so I setup my computer near my window which has iron bars.
We have tons of nigs streaming netflix constantly and watching porn non-stop. I put in my two sense but they didn't give a shit.
wait what? you guys don't have fiber?
Why not POE?
>1 Wi-Fi connection for an entire building
>sharing internet
This is nightmare material. Tell me more so I don't make the mistake of ending up in this scenario. Are you just not allowed to purchase your own?
What happened was we each had a ethernet port in our units but they turned them all off and have about 5-10 units all connecting to some 'super amazing router' that their company provides. They claim it will give 600mbs but it's about 10mbs download on a good day. I'm not sure what unit has the router plugged in, but it seems really far. It's extremely aggravating because we had spectrum prior to this and we could do whatever but this new provider has set up a ton of security measures not allowing much. Also, they literally told me if they monitor in real time what we do and if caught say torrenting or whatever they consider 'sketchy', they will call local law enforcement.
not to mention they are most likely selling all our data. I bought a VPN just for this reason. We went from 100mbs+ with no issues to this horseshit where it takes a few minutes to load some web pages.
tldr; get your own ISP, otherwise it'll be hell
And no, we weren't allowed too but I didn't mind because it was spectrum and that was what I was going to get anyway. I am probably going to look for some loophole so I can terminate my lease without having to pay the $1500 termination fee.
Why don't you just buy a 4G modem?
Be wary if you use Linux because that card is broadcom, I think it needs the proprietary blob.
> They claim it will give 600mbs but it's about 10mbs download on a good day.
If this were an ISP contract there's no way this could be acceptable regardless of what kind of weaselling they'd put in the contract. It's literally false advertising.
Since you're paying your landlord for Internet, logically I'd imagine it would be the same, and you should be able to do something about it.
>two sense
this looks like the lower half of a girl with a plaid skirt and black socks lying on her stomach
I see it. Excellent eye, my friend
I have that Wifi card. It is so fuycking good please get it. I have a shit ISP and i constantly get 9ms
Its the second best PCIE Card you can get its so good if you want to dominate your wifi get it. I when from 9mbs to 40 mbs and im in ur same situation.
Go get wifi pcie adapter like this instead and buy seperate ac wifi card
ad wifi is coming all you need is to swap the thing
Valid reasoning, but that would rely on OP's poverty landlord upgrading the rest of the infrastructure as well, which doesn't sound likely. Might be worth it for one's own autism/enjoyment though.
OP, whatever you do, make sure you get some fuck-off antennas to go with your card, something like these:
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A pair of high-gain omnidirectional dual band antennas will make a phenomenal difference to the performance any card, and you'll be able to squash the connections of the retards in the apartment next door. Just make sure the SMA connectors have the right genders, and ignore the pigtails in the link I posted, it's just an example. 9dBi gain is a good place to start though.
>ad wifi
What, that shit that struggles to penetrate blankets?
Use a high powered bridge, and then connect a hub/switch via RJ45 to it.
I've personally had good experience with this one.
www.asus.com/Networking/PCEAC68
A little more pricey than the one you linked, but with the external antenna you can place it somewhere open with better signal than hiding it behind you computer with the nest of cables you probably have back there.
I have that one it's real nice, just plug it in and it just works with win10
The only good desktop WLAN cards are Intel, because of their experience in the laptop space making WLAN cards.
All the other ones are complete fucking garbage.
dont get a USB wifi adapter, i tried one of those and they will cause your PC to lock up and crash randomly, took me a while to figure it out, you would be better off getting a multi mode router and set it up as a wifi client or bridge (basically a wifi adapter you plug in to your ethernet port)
i want to build one from a raspberry pi so i can plug directly in to the ethernet port and use the wifi to connect to the internet router on the other side of the house
This is pretty smart user.
and the pi can have pi hole on it so you dont have to run any adblock extension in your browser
If you have coaxial use MoCA. Bonded MoCA 2.0 can hit gigabit speeds and you don't need to run any wires since most houses have coaxial installed already.
i found this and so far i have not got it working yet
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Don't do it. Raspberry pi WiFi is extremely slow and extremely weak. Literally a complete waste of time.
Start jamming wifi so the nigs complain and you get good internet again
If you have an old router you could install OpenWRT or Gargoyle and use it as a wireless bridge, worked for my friend that has an old wireless N router and it's better than a cheap USB wifi option. Like others have said make sure it has external antennas.
I'd recommend >pic related.
only worthwhile if you have a 3x3 or 4x4 access point / router.
With a 2x2 wifi router having a 4x4 device is fairly pointless.
stop stealing wifi tyrone
is there CP on these servers?
Retard here, hypothetically is it possible to get priority on this kind of mass wifi somehow and shortchange the netflix niggers? For instance, if you used a giant antenna or even some sort of dish or whatever to blast your signal towards the access point, would that do anything?