This possibly could be the dumbest question asked on the forum

[OutlawedConsole]

By using an 802.11g card on a 802.11n network I am bottlenecking my wifi speeds. Just wanted to double check because i know next to nothing about wifi

[ERSCreeper]

Yup. N is faster than G

[thedigitalmilk]

Yeah

[BlackMamba]

yep

[LogicDeifying]

You mean slowing down the PC you have the card in or the network it self?

[AMICLG]

Yeah, local traffic is going to be bottlenecked the most but not too bad and it's not a stupid question at all.

[dalekphalm]

By using an 802.11g card on a 802.11n network I am bottlenecking my wifi speeds. Just wanted to double check because i know next to nothing about wifi

Correct, when a Wireless N network has a wireless G client logged in, the whole network will drop down to the lowest common speed. If at all possible, upgrade your client to Wireless N (Even a USB Wireless N dongle). This will allow the rest of the wireless network to operate at full capacity.

 

One thing of note: This will not affect the wired speeds of your network.

[OutlawedConsole]

You mean slowing down the PC you have the card in or the network it self?

The PC not the entire network, however now i realize I have slowed down my whole network.

 

I thank everybody for their willingness to help!

[dalekphalm]

The PC not the entire network, however is it possible that I could be slowing down the entire network?

How it'll work is the wifi speeds of the PC with Wireless G will of course run at Wireless G speeds. However, the entire wifi network will also revert to Wireless G speeds, even if it's a Wireless N network. This is the way that they achieve backwards compatibility.

 

It won't slow down the responsiveness of the PC itself though, just the wifi speeds of that PC (For example, opening documents locally won't be any different, but loading a web page or transferring a file over wifi will be affected).

[OutlawedConsole]

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN951N-Wireless-Advanced-Low-profile/dp/B0034CL2ZI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1387634600&sr=1-1&keywords=TL-WN951N

 Should I get this one? it's probably overkill but I don't really care

[OutlawedConsole]

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN951N-Wireless-Advanced-Low-profile/dp/B0034CL2ZI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1387634600&sr=1-1&keywords=TL-WN951N

 Should I get this one? it's probably overkill but I don't really care

Jk Jk I'm getting the PCI-E version I linked the wrong one

[Enderman]

The PC not the entire network, however now i realize I have slowed down my whole network.

 

I thank everybody for their willingness to help!

its not a stupid question, there have been much worse questions asked...

no, you will not be slowing down the entire network

only that your computer will have slower internet speed

also it wont slow down your pc performance, only the internet speed for connecting to the internet

[dalekphalm]

Jk Jk I'm getting the PCI-E version I linked the wrong one

Yeah the PCIe version of that would work quite well!

[OutlawedConsole]

Yeah the PCIe version of that would work quite well!

Well That solves that! 

Thank you very much for your help