Question about 939 motherboards

[tontod]

I think the Asus A8V Deluxe mobo has wi-fi, but I'm seeing that its discontinued. Any other S939 mobo's with built-in wifi?

 

[Concillian]

When an ASUS board says it has Wi-Fi it really has a slot in the board that you can plug in their proprietary Wi-Fi aftermarket device:

http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=13-131-210&depa=0

I'm not sure what the difference is between that and a PCI wireless card that you can get for like the same price, and it works in any motherboard. The ASUS wifi slot is not a REAL feature, it's mark-ineering.

And get this, I don't think they make a version other than the 11mbps version... You want 54mbps? you have to buy a PCI card anyway... LoL.

 

[tontod]

Interesting, I didnt know that. I thought it was integrated into the motherboard.

 

[yezhou]

I have the Asus A8V Deluxe with WiFi. It comes with a card with an external antenae. It is 802.11b/g compliant, so its capable of both 11Mbps (b) and 54Mbps (g). The modes you can configure it to are:

Ad-hoc Mode: connects to other wireless devices, where there is no access point present.

Infrastructure mode: functions as wireless client/station that connects to an access point.

Soft Access Point: acts as an AP so other wireless clients can connect to you.

Wireless bridge: connects 2 or more APs while maintaining connection to its wireless clients, used for integrating several wireless networks.

Oh also, Revision 1.xx are the ones with WiFi I believe, and Revision 2.xx don't have it...but it has a working AGP/PCI lock.

http://usa.asus.com/products/m...939/a8v-d/overview.htm

 

[imported_Harbinger]

Yep, if you are interested in an athlon mobo with wifi capabilities stick with the a8v one and you wont be disappointed, best value for money ever.

 

[tontod]

Damn, so if I want rev 2.0 with the working agp/pci lock and wi-fi then I'm out of luck. So Rev 1.0 of this board dosent have a working agp/pci lock?

 

[Concillian]

Wow, I dind't know that some ASUS wifi boards come with the cards in the package. I have two Wifi boards and all they were was the little slot, no card.

Alright by me though, I just finished wiring my house with 14 ports of gigabit goodness

 

[imported_Harbinger]

Originally posted by: tontod
Damn, so if I want rev 2.0 with the working agp/pci lock and wi-fi then I'm out of luck. So Rev 1.0 of this board dosent have a working agp/pci lock?

Well got an a8v 1 week ago. the store (overclockers.co.uk) only had wifi edition which made me conclude the board would be rev 1.x since I heard that rev2.0 would definately not have wifi. when I got the board while installing it i thought I should check revision and to my surprise it was rev2.0. And of course bundled with wifi card and antenna and working agp/pci lock as well. So you might find one like mine.