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Tech_Boy · 13-12-2006, 10:40

the answer comes down to these facts, a PCI (or in a laptop PCMCIA) cards are doing natively what they were designed to do, where as USB is using a large amount of your PC's processing power to emulate a PCI/PCMCIA card.

PCI/PCMCIA will allways be the preferred choice for wired or wireless networking, tho at a pinch USB will suffice, in the short term.

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Tech_Boy Inactive Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Swansea Age: 51 Services: Inhumations, for the right price Posts: 517	Re: Wireless Card or USB? the answer comes down to these facts, a PCI (or in a laptop PCMCIA) cards are doing natively what they were designed to do, where as USB is using a large amount of your PC's processing power to emulate a PCI/PCMCIA card. PCI/PCMCIA will allways be the preferred choice for wired or wireless networking, tho at a pinch USB will suffice, in the short term.