Oh yes, so when a problem arises or you are troubled by the
constantly changing technology that is where you start finding out solution
infact start yourself to update with the ongoing technology or start preparing
for the future technology as well. Although it’s hard to constantly update
ourselves with the technology but no matter what, we find ourselves learning
about something new with either of anyway, whether it is through friends,
family or something new that we see in an outlet, market or showrooms. The
fascinating technology attracts us very well.
It was not until when I realized that I need to move my
computer from the living room to my own personal room and now that the internet
modem is in the living room with a WLan cable attached to my computer, how am I
going to use the internet in my bed room. So that I had to shift my computer no
matter at any cost not knowing such thing like usb Wi-Fi adapter but the fact I thought for a
while about some sort of solution to such a small issue that I encountered. I
went to google did some research of how to use internet on computers without
the WLan cable and boom there was my solution. A Wi-Fi adapter that is a tiny
little thing hooks up to my computer and again I am back with the world
connected.
What is a Wi-Fi
adapter?
For all those who are unaware about what a Wi-Fi adapter is,
I’d like to give you a brief description not from Wikipedia because that takes
forever. A Wi-Fi adapter is a small usb device that is used to catch Wi-Fi
device in them. As a matter of fact that almost all the computers now a days are equipped with Wi-Fi’s in them but still the one that you get assembled or the old one’s are the only devices that need the help of this little thing to get the internet connected. We are very well familiar with the Wi-Fi’s in our phones, tablets and laptops as they are a part of the devices itself. This is where we need adapters to hook up with big machines and get them connected to the internet.
The Manufactures
There are abundance of companies manufacturing and building
the Wi-Fi adapters. The most famous of them is TP-Link, D-Link, Realtek, ZTE,
Huawei, Netgear, Leoxsys, Belkin etc. The availability of these devices in various
companies depends upon the country that you live in. Varying from different
range the most commonly used Wi-Fi adapters are 150mbps and 300mbps. These are
just the same variables that we get in modem routers.
Which One to Buy
These Wi-Fi adapters are suitable if you want to use your
computers of PC’s nearby to the router or that your router is just in another
room or 2 rooms upfront. These are the minimum range adapters as 150 is the
basic range and most commonly used. Based on the range of your wireless modem
too the requirement of the adapter depends. If you have a 300mbps wireless
router and you know that the range definitely would come in the room you want
to use it in just go for the 150mbps one or that you know your modem provides a
low signal strength then you should prefer the 300mpbs one because that is the
one which would provide you the perfect signal strength that you want. Also if
you have your internet modem very far from your room it’s much better to use
your Wi-Fi enabled devices to check whether you are able to get the range in
your room or that even that too is way bad signal. For that matter you should
definitely upgrade your modem to 300mbps and similarly get a 300mbps Wi-Fi
adapter too for that matter.
Installation
The installation of Wi-Fi adapter’s is similar to any other
driver that we install. It’s just following up with the
drivers CD available
with the product packaging and installing the correct driver depending upon the
architecture of your computer. Whether it is a 32bit or 64bit architecture and
also make sure the version of operating system that you are using. Every
operating system has a different driver such as windows XP, Vista, 7 or windows
8. There are different drivers for all these windows and sometimes common and
compatible with all the windows version as well.
Where to buy?
You basically can get this tiny little powerful don from
almost each and every computer accessories retail, wholesalers and distributors
etc. Being one of the most common computer accessory and much needed today it
is easily accessible to every consumer out there. Although I prefer to buy it
from ecommerce websites such as eBay, Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart and Shopclues
because of no bargaining and just the price which you have to give and also of
the buyers security as these days ecommerce websites are most secure than even
local shops and the money back guarantee in case the product doesn’t work upto
the mark and that is what drives me crazy upon these websites. I am so into
these websites that the best deals that I don’t even get in the markets or even
at distributors, I unhesitatingly get them at online retail stores as some of
the websites even provide product direct from the factories without any intermediate
involved and hence getting the beat deal at unbeatable price.
Conclusion
I have had three of the Wi-Fi adapters from TP-Link, D-Link
and a local one from eBay which is working so well and the cheapest deal I
found on the internet. The prices of Wi-Fi adapters vary from Rs175 ($2.80) to
Rs1000 ($16) high end (a.k.a antenna one). I’ll put down the link in case you want the
cheapest and the best one. Although it doesn’t have any warranty or guarantee
but it is working perfect for me since 1 year. The choice is definitely yours
either go with the brand ones which too work perfect or the cheap one.
Ebay:- Cheap
Adapters from eBay
Amazon:- Wi-Fi
Adapters
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