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What do you look out for when you purchase wifi cards? (lemmy.world)

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What properties that affect the range, speed and features should a consumer be looking out for?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the use case it's being purchased for. All laptops and most motherboards come with usable wifi for ordinary use, so it'll be a special case, like greater power or driver support for monitor mode.

But if we're talking a consumer oriented purchase, then a working driver included in the OS is high on my list. More than once have I had to help people get a wifi driver downloaded to a phone and then transfered the driver with USB. Which itself can be a handful as most third party cables are only for charging. I reckon that it wouldn't cost a lot to put 64MB flash memory on a wifi dongle, but I have yet to see it... Anyway that's a bit of a rant, but you definitely want a way to get the driver.

Other than that? What everyone else has said about standards, speeds, and whatnot.