Wireless router question - Netgear WGU624

The "holy crap it's 108Mbps!!11" routers are mostly useless, save a bunch of money by getting a regular B/G router that will work wonderfully with the card you have and ignore the misinformation that is computer accessory marketing.

Heh, I wondered the same thing. And I eventually just bought the router (except I bought the Linksys 802.11g with Speedbooster, I've always been partial to Linksys). Thing is, I upgraded from an 802.11b, at 11mpbs, so I can't compare the speedbooster to just a normal 802.11g.

With the Intel 2200 in my i8600, I tested the wireless speeds using www.nyc.speakeasy.net (I've just always used this site). It came out at about 3200 download speed, 250 upload. This was a tremendous increase from using 802.11b, which was under 1500 I believe.

Well, of course I was wondering how fast it could get if I bought the pcmia speedbooster card. Went out to bestbuy, decided to get it, test the speed using speakeasy, and if the speed wasn't significant, just return it the next day at bestbuy.

Well, I kept it :-D Wireless speed is faster or just as fast at wired. speakeasy reports 4000-4100 download speeds now, desktops report 3900-4000 (depends on time of day).

Without the card, just going with the Intel 2200 and the router, everything was fine though. Wireless gaming was no problem, ping levels were fine in rooms, everything was great. No complaints there.

But after buying the pc card, it's just better. Probably unneeded, but still, It's kind of neat to have wireless moving at these speeds. I like it, and I still don't consider it by any means a waste of money (even though my friends think it was).

So in a nutshell: Intel 2200 and the router is awesome (dont know how much better it is than just normal 802.11G though), and things reach desktop speeds with the laptop card.

Up to you if you need it to go that fast.

I bought that netgear model. Had lots of problems with it. Got it swapped for another one 3 times and all had the same problem.

A wired connection would work without any problems for the first 3 or 4 days after receiving the router, but then start dropping out every 5 to 20mins. The router had to be restarted each time. The weird thing was it happed on the wired connection, didnt even get to try the wireless option since i was going to purchase a wireless PCI card for my desktop but never did because i ended up returning the router.

3 routers same model and type, all had the same problem? Go figure

even all that is just hype...unless you have greater than 5Mbps internet and you are surfing the net and/or transfering small files, either b or g will be fine. recommend g if you are transferring more files, but both really suck for file large file transferring. you are only getting about half the rated wireless speed in through put. i've got 8Mbps internet connection so i have g. if i want to transfer large files between my desktop and laptop, i just use usb 2.0

I have the Neygear WGU624 model. I never had any problems with it.
I had a Linksys BEFW1154 and this gave me major problems, and finally end up dead.
Nah, you don't really need the adpater to get the best out of it.