Wireless network cards: PCI or USB?

[mitchafi]

Well in my house we have an 802.11B wireless network running off of the cable modem that is in my room using a linksys WAP router. There are only two computers connected wirelessly. A laptop that uses a notebook wireless adapter and a dell 8250 that uses a USB wireless adapter, both in the same room. The notebook's connection is great...surfing the internet is fast and it always has good signal strength. The desktop on the other hand, is not quite as fast, and it randomly craps out on you quite often, refusing to load webpages. What are some possible reasons for this? I was considering buying a PCI wireless card to see if it will fix the problem. Any ideas? By the way, both of the wireless adapters are linksys.

 

[JZilla]

Try the usb adapter on the laptop before rushing out and buying.

 

[mitchafi]

Yea I would do that but it was my dad's laptop and he took it with him for the summer (he works out of state).

 

[JZilla]

Don't know.

I have a Linksys G pci in my desktop, and it works fine. Drops connection from time to time when there's no activity (resumes right away), but that's probably user error

 

[n0cmonkey]

I've had bad luck with USB adapters, but I love my PCI ones.