Wireless Routers - 108Mbps or 54 Mbps?

[spirez]

I'm going to buy a wireless router this afternoon for my PC network at home and also to use my PSP online.
Is a 54Mbps router good enough for gaming on the PSP? I dont play online with the PC so that's not a problem, only use it for surfing and downloading files of 100mb max.
Will there be a noticeable difference if i upgrade to 108Mbps?
Also thinking of using a USB 2.0 adapter instead of a wireless PCI card, any disadvantages to using these?
Cheers

 

[TheCake]

108Mbps is possible outside of the 802.11g WiFi IEEE standards by manufacturers if you use their own dedicated Wifi products.

Example, buy a Belkin wifi access point/router and a Belkin Wifi card and you can, if permitted achieve 108Mbps, however if you use a different brand Wifi card you will slip down to 54Mbps. As would be the case if a mate comes round who didn't have Belkin stuff.

use 54Mbps at home and for surfing the net I don't notice anything much in the way of speed difference.

 

[spirez]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1350721433.1135777016@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdeaddgikfeegjcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&fm=10&sm=1&tm=0&sku=257700&category_oid=-24986

This should do me nicely then!

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

i went in yesterday and got :

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...m=10&sm=1&tm=0&sku=225869&category_oid=-24986

the matching bit which you stick on your PC for £62. was a special yesterday dont think they are doing it anymore

 

[Gav76]

54 Mbps is the communication speed between the router and the wifi stick on the PC. If your DSL is only 2Mbps then that will be the bottleneck.

I went wireless a few weeks ago, its excellent having no cables trailing around the room from the phone socket to the PC, worth it for that alone.

Have fun

 

[Woodentop]

Unless you are going to be doing lots of file transfers then i would get 54Mbps. You will never max that out by downloading from the web anyway