Wifi adapter or pci card for desktop

[ea1122]

what would be the best for a dell inspiron 531 XP desktop... wifi adapter or pci card..with long range?.... im thinking about buying one soon.. also what would be a real good name brand.. for this.. thanks

 

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PCI wifi adapter seems to work better than USB version.

Brand names that people trust -- Netgear, Linksys, Dlink. Generally, the main advantage with brand names is long term support. The cheaper no-name cards seem to work fine -- probably because they often use the same chipsets.