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Finding the wireless adapter that’s right for your computer can be about as fun as stubbing your toe if you don’t know what you’re doing. Of course, when you know what to look for, you don’t have to worry about wasting hours of your life reading all of those boxes.

If you purchased your computer within the last four years, you can rest assured that about 99 of the wireless adapters on the market are going to be compatible with your setup. Now, it’s just a matter of which one is going to work the best.

Even if you’re using a wireless-G router, you should purchase a wireless-N adapter. Your adapter can scale itself down for the G-band signal, so it’s not going to create any huge issues for you. In the future, when you upgrade to a wireless-N router, you won’t have to worry about buying a new adapter; your adapter will simply scale itself back up to N-band and give you those faster speeds.

Typically speaking, you’ll want to buy a 300Mb/s adapter as well. While the 150Mb/s model will save you a few bucks, the 300Mb/s model will make things like file transfers and media streaming work quite a bit better.

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