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mrentas31
Nov 14, 2021Follower
Not allowed to hard wire to lanlords router
I am not allowed to hardwire to my landlords router, which is required for my work minitower. I have full access to my landlords wifi. I am not able to have an ISP install. My room is dorm style under...
plemans
Nov 15, 2021Guru - Experienced User
michaelkenward has great suggestions.
I'd also check into a pci based adapter. You don't put what mini-tower you have but in my experience, the PCI based cards (even if using an pci adapter) tend to be more stable/faster than the usb variety. And they're pretty reasonably priced as well. so it might be worth checking to see if you have an available slot for your minitower.
- michaelkenwardNov 15, 2021Guru - Experienced User
plemans wrote:
michaelkenward has great suggestions.
I'd also check into a pci based adapter. You don't put what mini-tower you have but in my experience, the PCI based cards (even if using an pci adapter) tend to be more stable/faster than the usb variety. And they're pretty reasonably priced as well. so it might be worth checking to see if you have an available slot for your minitower.
I have looked into adding an M.2 socket for wifi card. Modern motherboards have a slot for those.
These cards can also do Bluetooth as well as wifi 6.
Netgear got out of the "card" market some time ago. So you'll have to look elsewhere.