PCIe WiFi Card Recommendation

(My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. I meant to
come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)

I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.

Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? Sounds like driver install may be
a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network card, but
otherwise looks good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063


Or, ASUS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320071

Thanks

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:02:19 +0000 (UTC), Boris
<> wrote:

>(My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. I meant to
>come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)
>
>I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.
>
>Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? Sounds like driver install may be
>a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network card, but
>otherwise looks good.
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063
>
>
>Or, ASUS
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320071
>
>Thanks



I never had either but if it were me, I'd go with the first one
because many bought it and it had good newegg reviews.

I don't know if they ship a cd with the Rosewell drivers but if not,
download and install the drivers from the Rosewill website prior to
installing the card. Then reboot and let windows detect the device.
Sometimes you may, during the install, have to fill in where the
drivers folder is located.

On Oct 18, 9:02*pm, Boris <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> (My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. *I meantto
> come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)
>
> I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.
>
> Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? *Sounds like driver install may be
> a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network card, but
> otherwise looks good.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063
>
> Or, ASUShttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320071
>
> Thanks

I would go with Asus...I find (and have mentioned this before)
Rosewill puts there name on generic items and it turns out to be a
crap-shoot!

On Oct 18, 8:02*pm, Boris <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> (My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. *I meantto
> come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)
>
> I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.
>
> Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? *Sounds like driver install may be
> a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network card, but
> otherwise looks good.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063
>
> Or, ASUShttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320071
>
> Thank

The ratings for that adapter are somewhat mixed.

You might want to checkout this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833180074

It is a usb adapter and the ratings are consistently higher. I bought
one and really like it and bought another one for backup.

"Boris" wrote in message
news:Xns9F82C1AF29A7Enospamnospaminvalid@46.4.102. 18...

(My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. I meant to
come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)

I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.

Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? Sounds like driver install may be
a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network card, but
otherwise looks good.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063

I have a Rosewill card and installed the Rosewill driver alone without
the other crap on the CD. Windows controls it and it's a fairly solid, well-
performing card.

Tom L

Boris <> wrote in
news:Xns9F82C1AF29A7Enospamnospaminvalid@46.4.102. 18:

> (My apologies for posting here and on the Windows7.general ng. I
> meant to come here and only here, but jumped the gun.)
>
> I need a PCIe wifi card for my Studio XPS 8100, running Win7HP 64-bit.
>
> Anyone familiar with this from Rosewill? Sounds like driver install
> may be a little cumbersome, if I want Windows to control the network
> card, but otherwise looks good.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166063
>
>
> Or, ASUS
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320071
>
> Thanks
>

Thank you all for your recommendations. However, I decided to locate my
8100 in the same room as my wifi router (D-Lnk 524), and connected the
two via ethernet. I can now get on the internet, and print to my
wireless capable Brother HL 2270 DW laser printer.