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Dedworth
10th September 2011, 22:08
I need to buy a new dongle as current 3 yr old £6 Vivanco one for some odd reason seems to be making the Vista system blue screen. Should I buy a 150mbps or 300mbps one ? Wireles G or Wireless N ? I'm guessing 150 Wireless N would be the one.

Its to talk to a standard O2 home wireless box

hawk
10th September 2011, 23:34
hi there my dongle is a addon from mapline electronice store it is a gwu180v4 802.11g it works good if you go for the n+ will give you better range hope it helps:Wave:

Englishman2010
11th September 2011, 08:12
I've tried a variety of dongles over the past couple of years with varying success. Currently I'm using a Realtek USB N 150 rated dongle along with a Belkin N+ rated modem on my main laptop. I've had this set up for about 2 months and so far so good, none of the drop outs I had with previous modems and dongles have occured. I don't know how much these cost as I got them through work:Erm:

Re above set up, sometimes I'm using up to 3 lap tops, 2 smart phones, a tablet and a PSP on this set up with no noticeable drop in performance. Speedtests are regularly coming in at around 16 Mbps

KeithD
11th September 2011, 09:02
Just a cheap G or N off Ebay will do, they work fine for me.

Dedworth
11th September 2011, 16:56
Thanks for the tips fellas I'll grab one off eBay or Amazon

les_taxi
11th September 2011, 19:41
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300Mbps-WIRELESS-N-USB-ADAPTER-LAN-NETWORK-WiFi-DONGLE-/270804466739?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f0d343c33

Dedworth
11th September 2011, 20:45
Thanks Les

les_taxi
11th September 2011, 21:38
Ordered one myself so when i fix peoples laptops I don't have to run cable to pc:xxgrinning--00xx3: