ErikSmith

Thanks guys, exactly what I was looking for. I'm gonna explain myself a bit better: The room my pc will be in (parts are shipping now, mini ITX build, budget around 1k $) is actually outside my home, but shares a wall with my parents' bedroom, which is in turn pretty far from the router. Since it's a flat and we don't plan to live here forever, and we have complaining neighbors, running an ethernet cable all the way to that room, even inside walls, is unfortunately not an option. WiFi barely reaches the place, and my thought was 'Yeah, my bandwidth is already crappy, so I don't have anything to lose' so I thought that it was worth a shot. I don't have bandwidth needs as much as latency ones, so I wanted to know if it was worth a shot. I'll probably buy a pair of powerline adapters until I can get ethernet to the room I'm in, so thanks for the info guys

Hi everyone, a noob here. I recently built a pc and it bothers me that I now have a good pc but a low quality access to the Internet. This is because I live in a house with thick concrete walls, and I can't be nowhere near the modem/router. Since my house is not that old I was considering buying a pair of powerline adapters to get past the concrete walls and get better internet than wifi. The contract with my ISP here in Italy gives me 20Mbps internet (real world download speed: 1 MBps), my average latency is about 50/60ms, with spikes to 500ms for like a couple of seconds every five to six minutes. Will a powerline adapter help me with tasks such as gaming? Or will it add to the latency and offer me worse connection than my wifi? Thanks a lot!

Ok, I must look so dumb now, I watched mixed reviews of the case and someone said they used a wifi card but they actually didn't so obviously there was no room for antennas on the I/O shield. I'm sorry, my fault, now my mind is cleared

I saw some pictures of the closed case and I thought I noticed a cover on the I/O shield, but it was probably paranoia on my side. So basically the case comes with a standard I/O shield and then the motherboard takes care of that?

Hi everyone, first post here! My name is Erik, and I recently became very interested in the Fractal Design Node 202 (after watching the cool ads on Linus' videos ahah). I'm planning my build helping myself out with videos and such, and it's actually been pretty easy atm. The only thing I can't figure out (and I feel a noob about it) is integrated WiFi on mini ITX boards. Unfortunately, there's no chance that my pc will end up in a place where a wired connection is a possibility, so my only chance for an internet connection on this build is going wifi. The problem is that all the boards I've found have integrated WiFi with antennas, and with that case this poses quite a problem, since, well, there's no room for that. I'm quite out of solutions at the moment, and I don't like the idea of giving up on this build. Any tips? Thanks a lot and sorry if it's in the wrong section.

Four years left in college, plus I'm a musician and a gamer at heart. I could really use the Blade Stealth, I can imagine my friends just staring at that beauty during class