Upgrading WiFi Card

TaylorDean16 · November 16, 2018

I'm looking to upgrade my wifi card and I have a budget of about $50. I'm looking to get some more range out of it since the router is way upstairs and one that can get more speed if possible. Currently when I play online games like Rainbow Six Seige, I get disconnected for having bad connection and 9,569 ping (which I think is also caused by connecting to servers hosted in faraway lands but whatever) so I'm trying to fix that problem. Thanks!

Here's my current card: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tTdqqs/gigabyte-wireless-network-card-gcwb867di

And here's my current pc (not sure if this matters): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/1nvasi0n/saved/jYRf8d

Here are a few parts I'm going to change in the near future (Christmas); shouldn't matter at all, but you never know when a stupid random incompatibility issue will surprise you. Also getting black and red cables from cablemod that are designed for EVGA power supplies since apparently there's not a standard for these things? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4fX9Bb

If anyone has some other suggestions relating to stuff to do to my pc I'm down to hear that too. This was my first build I made last summer so I did some weird stuff that I didn't know about back then like getting a motherboard that's pretty decent for overclocking and pairing it with a processor I can't even overclock and having to deal with all the great bonus cables I don't use since I got a non-modular power supply. Thanks for all the help!

MuscularPotato · November 16, 2018

what wireless standard can your router do? Might be a better move to either try and roll out ethernet or look into deploying a mesh network. Heck, ethernet over power could also help maybe

TaylorDean16 · November 16, 2018

14 hours ago, MuscularPotato said:

what wireless standard can your router do? Might be a better move to either try and roll out ethernet or look into deploying a mesh network. Heck, ethernet over power could also help maybe

I have a Netgear AC1750 which supports 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz and 802.11 a/n/ac 5GHz

I can't really move the router itself and using Ethernet would be cool but my house is wired in a way that apparently AT&T would have to come out and wire stuff up for it to work in my room or something like that.