Wifi card

[VengfulKing666]

I am building myself a gameing pc I have "gigabite" Internet from suddenlink I am going to use the Asus Blackhawk router with this wifi card https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0079XWMEI/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1. I need to know if this is a good card to use for the speeds I can have 

[Naeaes]

Never heard of Asus Blackhawk. Can you post a link? That transceiver is fine for the price but It's N-draft nonetheless. I'd expect somewhere around 40-50Mbps out of it. The "Wireless N speed up to 300Mbps" requires a compatible TP-link accesspoint. Without it it's just like any other N-Draft with MiMo.

[KillerWolf17]

I use the TP-Link N900 and it works great for everything, but its double the price of the N300.

[VengfulKing666]

1 hour ago, Naeaes said:

Never heard of Asus Blackhawk. Can you post a link? That transceiver is fine for the price but It's N-draft nonetheless. I'd expect somewhere around 40-50Mbps out of it. The "Wireless N speed up to 300Mbps" requires a compatible TP-link accesspoint. Without it it's just like any other N-Draft with MiMo.

my bad it is a netgear router   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0192911RA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2OIDLH685AGUN&coliid=I227ZGNCTP664M&psc=1

[VengfulKing666]

here is my complete build if it helps any    https://pcpartpicker.com/user/AngelMacias89/saved/3Ggt6h

[Naeaes]

6 hours ago, VengfulKing666 said:

my bad it is a netgear router   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0192911RA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2OIDLH685AGUN&coliid=I227ZGNCTP664M&psc=1

Alright. You're going to want to pair that with a better adapter. The Nighthawk has those four antennas because it splits the Wi-Fi into four channels. Much like torrents or RAID-0. It can theoretically do up to 1,7Gbps that way, but the transceiver has to have the four antennas too and be compatible with the method. For instance Asus PCE-AC88 can do that. It's got that external antenna array too so you can get it up from behind your case. AC can only operate at 5GHz which is prone to interference.

 

Of course, if your outbound connection isn't anywhere near that fast and you don't need the local connection to be fast either for like streaming, you can tone back a bit. I'd still get at least an adapter with AC1200 speeds. Even if there's no need for the bandwidth, at some point the ping is going to start suffering. 

[VengfulKing666]

4 hours ago, Naeaes said:

Alright. You're going to want to pair that with a better adapter. The Nighthawk has those four antennas because it splits the Wi-Fi into four channels. Much like torrents or RAID-0. It can theoretically do up to 1,7Gbps that way, but the transceiver has to have the four antennas too and be compatible with the method. For instance Asus PCE-AC88 can do that. It's got that external antenna array too so you can get it up from behind your case. AC can only operate at 5GHz which is prone to interference.

 

Of course, if your outbound connection isn't anywhere near that fast and you don't need the local connection to be fast either for like streaming, you can tone back a bit. I'd still get at least an adapter with AC1200 speeds. Even if there's no need for the bandwidth, at some point the ping is going to start suffering. 

Should I keep to tp or switch and what would be better a pci card or a USB adapter 

[Naeaes]

17 minutes ago, VengfulKing666 said:

Should I keep to tp or switch and what would be better a pci card or a USB adapter 

Keep it. It's great. They don't make USB adapters at those speeds so for you PCI-E is clearly better. At lower speeds it really doesn't matter.

[VengfulKing666]

11 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

Keep it. It's great. They don't make USB adapters at those speeds so for you PCI-E is clearly better. At lower speeds it really doesn't matter.

Could u post a link I searched for it and only found USB adapter ....found ac1300 that would be fine right

[Naeaes]

4 minutes ago, VengfulKing666 said:

Could u post a link I searched for it and only found USB adapter ....found ac1300 that would be fine right

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16833320313

[VengfulKing666]

2 minutes ago, Naeaes said:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16833320313

Very good card thanks a lot I'll add to list just a question though u had said ac1200 not 2100 is there a reason for the switch

[Naeaes]

26 minutes ago, VengfulKing666 said:

Very good card thanks a lot I'll add to list just a question though u had said ac1200 not 2100 is there a reason for the switch

I said at least AC1200. It's up to you if you want to bottleneck your connection but for gaming, you should never go below AC1200. Especially since your router can do AC2600. 

[VengfulKing666]

1 hour ago, Naeaes said:

I said at least AC1200. It's up to you if you want to bottleneck your connection but for gaming, you should never go below AC1200. Especially since your router can do AC2600. 

 

ahh I see thanks