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wireless g network card

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i have a linksys wireless router with speed-boost - I'm wondering if its best and easiest to just stay with the same manufacturer equipment when buying wireless pci nic cards or really make not a lot of sense . i know a card with speed-boost will make my connection faster but is it really best to stay with one brand of equipment .
there is like as much as $30 deferents from one company to another's !
and i not seen other then linksys come out with speed boost cards and routers !

help as i need to buy one card by tonight !
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Most of the speed boost stuff doesn't work with a different manufacturers. The best you will get if you get some other brand card is most likely plain old 802.11G. Assuming all of Linksys's speed boost stuff is compatible Broadcom makes it. If you really want to try a different brand find something that uses a Broadcom wireless chip. This may or may not work I don't know.
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Speedbooster is proprietary to Linksys - you have to have tLinksys on both ends and they both have to support Speedbooster.

The question is, do you need it? If this is only for Internet it's a waste of money. Internet is far slower than even an 802.11b Wifi connection.

If you do a lot of large file transfers then you want as much bandwidth as you can get.
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