WiFi card speeds

[Potato_Magnet]

I'm looking to get a wifi card but I don't know what a good download speed is, they all seem terrible. The wifi USB that I have was $12 and is max 500mb/s, and the $50 Asus wifi card I want is 850mb/s, but I have ting fiber, which offers 1000gb/s, so what should I get, I would want something red or black though, like this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JNA337K/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

[kanewolf]

You will not use all your WAN speed with any WIFI card. At best, you might get 1/2 speed. If you want to use your full WAN speed you will have to use wired connectivity.

 

[Potato_Magnet]

You will not use all your WAN speed with any WIFI card. At best, you might get 1/2 speed. If you want to use your full WAN speed you will have to use wired connectivity.

well what is a good option, why is the $12 and the $50 the same speed

 

[kanewolf]

The advertised "speeds" of WIFI are just advertising. The $50 card has a much better probability of getting the 1/2 speed. The $12 USB will probably get 1/10 the WAN speed.

My guess is you will get 1/3 the WAN speed with the $50 card...

 

[USAFRet]

If you have actual gigabit service from your ISP, an ethernet cable is your best (only) real solution.

 

[Potato_Magnet]

If you have actual gigabit service from your ISP, an ethernet cable is your best (only) real solution.

Stop it with the cable, cable this, cable that, I cant get a cable that's why I'm asking about wifi cards, I know a cable is better

 

[kanewolf]

If you have actual gigabit service from your ISP, an ethernet cable is your best (only) real solution.

Stop it with the cable, cable this, cable that, I cant get a cable that's why I'm asking about wifi cards, I know a cable is better

You can always get a cable. You may not like the looks of it, or you might not like where you have to put the PC to get a wire, but you can ALWAYS get a wire. Why pay for gigabit internet speeds if you are going to purposefully limit it inside your own home. If you are going to be WIFI then save money and drop back to 100Mbit service.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry, but that's the way it works.
If you desire to actually get gigabit performance to your PC, WiFi won't get you there.

You'll be lucky to see 1/2 that, even being in direct line of sight in the same room.

 

[Potato_Magnet]

If you have actual gigabit service from your ISP, an ethernet cable is your best (only) real solution.

Stop it with the cable, cable this, cable that, I cant get a cable that's why I'm asking about wifi cards, I know a cable is better

You can always get a cable. You may not like the looks of it, or you might not like where you have to put the PC to get a wire, but you can ALWAYS get a wire. Why pay for gigabit internet speeds if you are going to purposefully limit it inside your own home. If you are going to be WIFI then save money and drop back to 100Mbit service.

I can get a cable but I'm not looking for one.

 

[vmfantom]

I'm looking to get a wifi card but I don't know what a good download speed is, they all seem terrible. The wifi USB that I have was $12 and is max 500mb/s, and the $50 Asus wifi card I want is 850mb/s, but I have ting fiber, which offers 1000gb/s, so what should I get, I would want something red or black though, like this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JNA337K/?tag=pcpapi-20

All things being equal, the more antennas you have = the more MIMO spatial streams = the more throughput you get. You haven't mentioned which router you'd use to connect the wifi card to, so that's a limiting factor as far as recommendations go, but the has a Phy rate of 2.1 Gbps on 5 GHz, versus 867 Mbps with the PCE-AC56. Red and black is really Asus' thing, so I guess they'll have your business.

As others pointed out, throughput is going to average maybe 40% of the maixmum nominal link rate (Phy rate) because a 4 ms transmit window = 80% MAC efficiency, and a TDMA transmit window of 50% is common. But again, whatever you do, you'd need the router to support the same number of MIMO spatial streams, chipset, modulation (QAM), etc. to make full use of the wifi card's own settings. So if your card is 4x4 MIMO at 1024-QAM and your router is only 2x2 MIMO at 256-QAM, then 2x2 MIMO at 256-QAM is all you'll get due to the router's bottleneck.