Large aerial can look unsightly and get in the way .
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I bought one of these cards only a few months ago. I was debating running a cat5 cable from one floor of my house up to the next and through a couple of walls. Logic suggested to me that using a cable'd method for connection would work out to be the cheaper option, seeing as the technology has been around for quite some time now and wireless technology is still fairly new. I visited my local reseller of computer and electrical products to be faced with a moral dilemna. A cat5 cable at the length I required and 1 PCI network adapter worked out to be £5 more than buying the linksys wireless PCI adapter. My router was I knew was already wireless, as they all seem to be these days. Suddenly it was a decision based on whether I believed wireless could compete with a cable solution. Well to cut a short story even shorter I opted for the wireless PCI card. The real reason being that if I was not 100% happy with it I could take it back to the store for a refund and then use the good old cable method. As you might have guessed, the wireless card worked out well. I had it up and running in my system running Microsoft Windows XP in less than 15 minutes. Thats surely quicker than it would have been to drill walls etc to run a cable. I have recently tried to use this card with Ubuntu Linux (one of the many distrobutions of linux available). And what a miracle, although the ndiswrapper(a kind of windows driver emulation) was required, the card work. And once again, it was very straight forward. Speed, signal strength etc are all what I would class as near perfect. I do not feel there would be any advantage with going the cable route. Value for money.. most definately.
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