Where can I get a cheap PCI adapter/wireless card?

Riprorin

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Bought the Belkin Wireless router for $70. However, I didn't realize the PCI adapter and wireless card were so expensive.

Unfortunately, wireless may be my only option since I need to run cable to my basement and I drywalled the ceiling.

 

JackMDS

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Most Client cards are PCMCIA, which work very well with Laptops.
For Desktop, it is usually better to use USB Wireless Card. Most PCI Wireless Cards with fixed antenna (stuck behind the PC) yield inferior results versus the Flexible Antenna on a USB card.

If you decide to stay with PCI, and you do not get an adaptor made by, the same brand that made the PCMCIA card. Make sure that you can return the adaptor if it does not work.

In theory all adaptors work with all cards, unfortunately it is not so.