Gift Guide: Airlink101 High Speed Wireless N USB Adapter for Under $50
If your home network of computers is anything like ours, it's a comically mixed bag of laptops and desktops of vintages spanning almost a decade. Without going into too much tech talk, this means that our busted ol' laptop rocking an 802.11B Wi-Fi card prevents our potentially rocket-fast 802.11n-equipped laptop from ever reaching those wireless speeds. (That's just how Wi-Fi routers work -- ...
If your home Wi-Fi network sometimes seems to drag at a snails pace, check if all the PCs on your network have the same speed wireless cards (Wi-Fi or 802.11 comes in three main speeds: in order of slower to faster, b, g and n). It turns out that Wi-Fi routers run only as fast as the slowest device on the network. So even if you have a new "n" router, a new desktop PC with a speedy 802.11n ...








