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How would I know what's compatible with my router?

It should be since wireless is backwards compatible, it will work at the slowest speed, e.g. I have an AC wireless card that came with my mobo and I have a N router so it works at N and if I had an AC router and a N certified card then I would see N speeds most modern routers are a/b/g/n so unless your is very old you should be fine

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Im building a decent pc next month and I have no idea about networking cards. Can anyone help? If you need more info let me know I can give you what I can find. Thanks and sorry about the stupidity.

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cheap ones tend to work well. I have a 15 euro asus PCe N-15, works a charm for me :)

How would I know what's compatible with my router?

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How would I know what's compatible with my router?

It should be since wireless is backwards compatible, it will work at the slowest speed, e.g. I have an AC wireless card that came with my mobo and I have a N router so it works at N and if I had an AC router and a N certified card then I would see N speeds most modern routers are a/b/g/n so unless your is very old you should be fine

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Tbh i have no idea.. I'm out of my depth in networking, i'v never looked into it. I just assumed that it was standard :L

Lol me too thats why im here. Thanks for the info ill keep in mind.

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It should be since wireless is backwards compatible, it will work at the slowest speed, e.g. I have an AC wireless card that came with my mobo and I have a N router so it works at N and if I had an AC router and a N certified card then I would see N speeds most modern routers are a/b/g/n so unless your is very old you should be fine

It should be since wireless is backwards compatible, it will work at the slowest speed, e.g. I have an AC wireless card that came with my mobo and I have a N router so it works at N and if I had an AC router and a N certified card then I would see N speeds most modern routers are a/b/g/n so unless your is very old you should be fine

Dont know the exact model bit its about 3 year old Motorola. I can check what model in about 20 min when I get home from work.

<p>CPU: Intel i7 4790k(4.9GHz), Motherboard: ASUS sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 (2 way SLI) PSU: EVGA 850w G2 Storage: Intel 730 Series 240GB 2.5" SSD, Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Case: NZXT H440 Designed by Razer, EK,Alphacool,Bitspower custom loop.

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Dont know the exact model bit its about 3 year old Motorola. I can check what model in about 20 min when I get home from work.

When you get home google the model and it's part number should tell all you need to know

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When you get home google the model and it's part number should tell all you need to know

Thanks :-)

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Thanks :-)

If you have any other questions post back here either I or somebody else should be able to help you

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