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Drux
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Hey when i built my system i never got a wireless card because i never assumed i would need one, well i have to move now. The place i'm moving to really has nothing for internet so I'm probably just going to be using a verizon 4g hotspot or something similar from another company. I need a wireless card but i don't know much about them, anyone willing to help? If it matters i mostly just play LoL, i have no idea if the hotspot connection is going to be decent enough to play, i guess we will see. I'm just looking for what my best options would be, the difference between PCIE and usb adapters etc. Sorry i've tried doing a little research but i'm kinda out of time here.

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my recommendation is, dont move there... and no 4g cannot be played on, and tends to have massive data caps and high cost, even more so in the backwater US

I disagree, battlefield 4 uses about 80mb an hour tops and I have played it on 4g using my phone as a hotspot to see how it was. It was a little slower latency, but for the most part completely playable.

 

@Drux

Buy an asus usb wifi adapter, it will be the best one you can get. You'll see no difference than you would with a pcie card, it will be more reliable and function better.

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I disagree, battlefield 4 uses about 80mb an hour tops and I have played it on 4g using my phone as a hotspot to see how it was. It was a little slower latency, but for the most part completely playable.

 

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Buy an asus usb wifi adapter, it will be the best one you can get. You'll see no difference than you would with a pcie card, it will be more reliable and function better.

 

 on the asus usb wifi adapter.. i have one.. its got great speed and signal strenght.. just it stops working at times and i have to unplug and plug back in again to restart it twice or more a day.

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 on the asus usb wifi adapter.. i have one.. its got great speed and signal strenght.. just it stops working at times and i have to unplug and plug back in again to restart it twice or more a day.

I never had trouble with mine, the funny thing is I had that same problem with my pcie card which lead me to buy the wifi adapter. It ended up working better than the pcie card I bought lol. I have it paired with a $150 asus router though, the asus usb adapters are the best on the market and have the lowest failure rates from the people who have actually used them from what I have learned about them.

My Rig :  Case: Cooler Master HAF X ,Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H,PSU: Seasonic SS-750KM3,Processor: Core I7 4770k (overclocked 4.7ghz),Cooler: Corsair H100i, GPU: EVGA GTX 780 with acx cooler, RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 16gb DDR3 1600 (overclocked to 2000mhz), HDDS  Samsung 840 EVO 250 gb SSD , Western digital  2tb 7200 rpm 64mb cache, Old 1tb laptop drive I had , 320gb for os backup daily, 80gb external for weekly backups,Drives 2x Lg Blu Ray burner WH16MS40,MISC: Tp-Link dual band wireless card, Logitech g510s, Razer Deathadder 2013, Acer G236HLBbd 23" monitor, Old tv I had 23" for secondary monitor, old 32" samsung tv third monitor

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