Best Budget Wifi Card

[Seikle]

I would like a Wi-Fi card (Internal would be nice) that is VERY cheap but will be adequate. This will be for a gaming system, and im going wireless due to house constraints :/

1.) 10-25 USD w/ rebates/discounts
4.) Be able to last...

 

[bill001g]

Even the most expensive wifi card may not work well for games. This depends on how your house is built and on things like how much interfering signals you have from neighbors. Online games do not tolerate packet loss or delay due to poor signal well.

You will save money if you get 802.11n card rather than 802.11ac, games do not care as much about the speed just the quality of the connection.

The devices you do not want to use are those tiny USB nic cards. They are extremely low power and have tiny antenna.

This is impossible to predict some house you can play games fine on wireless other do not work at all. Way to many variables. Powerline will be better but likely is above your budget....the low end powerline have trouble in some houses.

 

[Ztdutxjgxgtu]

Try to avoid tplink
Asus ac56 is good but seems outside your budget

 

[RememberThe5th]

I agree totally with tp link, driver issues are soo bad, but one that didnt cause me any issue at all was thre 722N usb v4 eu with antenna, I personally used it over 3 years on sun, water, winter, it still worked even the usb corroded but I fixed myself that.
I broke it when I lost the trace for Data pin <3