[SOLVED] Good PC network card

[under555]

Hi, I am looking for a WIFI network card (it would be nice if it was with BT) for my PC.

I can't let the cable go, I know it will be worse on WIFI, but it's hard.

Currently I have a router with UPC (polish company) with a 500 mega net (weak router, I know) but soon there will be a router with WIFI 6 from another 1 giga operator - no router crazy, but let's say that it must be enough for the time being.
the current router is
Compal Broadband Networks CH7465LG-LC (the one from UPC) but I think it's less important because I can always buy my router in the future



I did two tests on the current router

on the desk there was an antenna from my current network card (such a crap that I disconnected it at all), i.e. Asus PCE-AC88 (in my computer)

interestingly, on the same desk I put my Thinkpad laptop with an Intel AX210NGW network card, i.e. ax210NGW
I didn't set anything up neither the computer nor the laptop, i.e. I didn't set anything up in the network cards.

Much better internet parameters were on the laptop.

The topic was so tiring that in the end (from six months ago) I gave it up, but now I want to quickly buy a PC card.

Back then, from what I remember, the final conclusion was that the Intel based network cards work best and my asus has something other than intel.



So: what network card to buy? one on the pcie (Or USB) so that the antenna was on the cable, so that it could stand on the desk.



Under WIFI 6, I would like it to serve for a long time with the latest possible chipset.



I assume that if the 2-year-old card in my thinkpad works cool, then some newer PC intel will be even better - at least a little.



What to buy and why?

 

[bill001g]

It also greatly depends on your router.

The asus card you mention is actually one of the top rated pci cards. It has some of the best performance of any card in the class. It uses chips made by broadcomm who makes most the chips routers use.

Your thinkpad can't be 2yrs old if it has a ax210ngw. That chipset was only approved last summer by the fcc if I remember the dates. That is a wifi6e chipset and wifi6e was only fully approved about a year ago so no cards really existed before then.

In any case unless you have a wifi6e or at least a wifi6 router that card could be slower than the asus card. The asus card will attempt to do 4x4 mimo where the intel can only do 2x2. So if it drops back to 802.11ac it could be slower. It will only be faster if it can get really strong signals from your router that must also be wifi6.

Normal wifi6 is pretty much a waste of money. In most cases it can not actually use the full speeds because it can not get 160mhz channels because of weather radar in most countries. Wifi6e should/might solve this because it runs on 6ghz where there is lots of new bandwidth. BUT wifi6e is very new and kinda hard to get.

I also have no idea what the rules in poland but the EU tends to have more restrictions ie lower power making it harder to get good signal on the 5g band already than the USA. I have not seen when and if the 6ghz radio band can be used.

 

[gggplaya]

I would keep the pcie wifi card you have, in case you need to move your desktop around for some reason.

Instead for the highest speeds, I would buy an Asus router and use Media Bridge Mode to connect your desktop to the main home router. You'll get the best radio circuit components and speed this way. I would also get a directional antenna and point it in the direction of your main home router to get the best signal strength possible. I did this for several years when I lived in an apartment.

If you have coax in your house in both rooms, I would also look into using MOCA as this will give you the best connection.

 

[under555]

I wrote down all the possible settings of my asus from the device manager, maybe something needs to be set differently or something - do you have an idea? because the network card can only be set there, right?

20/40 coexistence – auto/enab/disab

2g bandwidth capability – 2.4G: 20/40Mhz Or 2.4G: 20Mhz

40Mhz intolerant – enab/disab

802.11d support (auto-country) – disab/enab

Antenna diversity – auto/aux/main

Arp offload – enab/disab

Assoc listen interval – number like 1,2,3 etc

Beamforming – disabled/enabled

Bluetooth collaboration – auto/enab/disab

Bss plcp header – auto(short/long) or long

D2 listen interval – 1,2,3 etc i has setup 5

Enable/disable LTR – enab/disab

Fragmentation threshold – number , i has “2346”

Locally aministered mac address – number or dosent exsist (i has this one)

Ltr active value in microseconds – numbers , i have 60

Minimum power consumption – enab/disab

Ns offload –enab/disab

Power output – percents , i has 100%

Priority & vlan – P&V disabled or P&V enabled or priority enabled or vlan enabled

Rts threshold – numbers, i have 2347

Vht features – numbers, i have 7

Wake on magic pocket – enab or disab

Wake on pattern match – enab od disab

Wfd channel number – numbers, i have 11

Wifi rekeying offload – disabled/ enabled

Wmm – auto/disab/enab

Xpress (tm) technology – enabled/disabled