What are the most compatible options offering highest speeds and bandwith for a USB adapter/dongle connecting to the RT-N66U router on 2.4 or 5 GHz?

 

I need one for my ASUS laptop which has a Atheros card inside and only offers 2.4 GHz @ 150 Mbit (Speed shown in Windows 7 ult. 64b).

 

Would a swap of internal card be possible or advisable? Maybe Intel 6230?

 

As far as dongles I see Asus and Trendnet offering a 450 MBs solution. These speeds should be taken with a grain of salt I guess.

All wireless should be taken with a grain of salt.

Does your base station have Gigabit connections? Most don't (and therefore your limited to 100Mbit between wireless to your unraid)

 

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What are the most compatible options offering highest speeds and bandwith for a USB adapter/dongle connecting to the RT-N66U router on 2.4 or 5 GHz?

 

I need one for my ASUS laptop which has a Atheros card inside and only offers 2.4 GHz @ 150 Mbit (Speed shown in Windows 7 ult. 64b).

 

Would a swap of internal card be possible or advisable? Maybe Intel 6230?

 

As far as dongles I see Asus and Trendnet offering a 450 MBs solution. These speeds should be taken with a grain of salt I guess.

 

I can't speak for your laptop, but in very basic terms, they're obtaining 450 via three antenna (150x3).  Your laptop probably has one (1x150).  The problem is, most laptops have antenna cables run through them, so your only alternatives may be another 150 capable WIFI card.  Exact model/specs would be required to comment further.

 

As for USB, I don't recall seeing one (that isn't large or more of a small base station partially because of the info above) that has 450 capabilities yet.  There are a number of 2.4/5 300 models.  For example:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320040 (2.4 only)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320089 (dual band)

Linksys/Cisco has some as well as many other manufactures.

 

In regards to 2.4 vs 5, a huge portion of the population is still running 2.4, so 5 is typically a "cleaner" band per say at this point.  A spectrum analyzer / sniffer (available for windows, *nix, android phones, etc) would tell you what frequencies and channels are in use at your location.  However, that's getting quite a bit more hardcore than is required.  Wired is always king if at all possible.

 

All wireless should be taken with a grain of salt.

Does your base station have Gigabit connections? Most don't (and therefore your limited to 100Mbit between wireless to your unraid)

 

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Other than bargain basement routers, more often than not recent hardware of even remote quality has gig capability.  And yes, his router has all gig including the "WAN" port in a 2 second google search.

In fact there are 2 antennas connected to the WiFi card in my laptop. Thats why I mentioned the Intel 6230 which has 2 antenna connectors and not the Intel 6300 which has 3.

 

And yes the router has Gigabit connection.