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Wireless - N Desktop PCI/PCI - E Card? What's the best one?

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Wireless - N Desktop PCI/PCI - E Card? What's the best one?

I'm hearing Linksys isn't all that great for 5Ghz N.
I can't believe D-link cards seem to be the most expensive ones, not much selection for non-usb cards it seems.

Any tips?
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Well ive been using a linksys 600n dual band desktop card thats pci for the last 5 months. Awesome card.

Prior to that I tried a pci-e asus dual band card and it was ****
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In another thread, I posted a suggestion that one could combine a cheap Intel 4965 a/g/n, a very well supported and very good miniPCI-E card, with a PCI-E to miniPCI-E with 3-antenna adapter board from DealExtreme for a total cost of around $20-$25.

Don't have the link handy, but if you search my nickname and "4965", you'll find the post.
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Get a Intel 5300 miniPCI-e card and get an adapter on fleabay.
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yeah I was thinking of doing just that.
Intel has a Centrino ultimate-N "450mbps" minipci-e model
seems like a strange approach though, plus the quality of the adapter and it's antenna cables would be of some concern to me. Some of this ebay/dealextreme stuff is broken by design...
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