Wireless card upgrade?

>I have heard of is with FIOS at up to 30MBpS

 

With regard to the OP, upgrading your card won't be enough.  That really fast card will only work if you buy a router of the same brand and model to pair with it. 

 

On another note (and the real reason I'm posting -- other than to avoid doing a paper), can I brag and say that I clocked an internet download at 56mbps yesterday off the school connection to my apartment?  It took a lot of registry tweaking but hey, it's pretty sweet when I can find a good server and hit that.  The downside is that I can now use up my 350mB/hour cap very quickly now.  This is wired of course, but if I went wireless I'd definitely need something faster than 802.11g  :D

Hey thanks guys for the fast reply.

So I guess the card will only help on my LAN.

Thats cool.

Again thanks for your time and have a nice day

The card you are seeing with the "300mbps" is a wireless "N'" spec card. And while the spec for wireless N is 300 mbps..this is rarely acheived. There are a lot of factors that need to be in place for one to see that speed..like one user mentioned having a router and card from the same mfr is a start...

A big issue is that the N spec has not been approved yet and all the stuff on the market is pre-N stuff. The spec is supposed to be ratified sometime next yr. So maybe then we will truely start to see equipment that will give the 300mbps throughput..

Again this would only affect the throughput between computers and devices on the local network..