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acruxksa · Rated XXX

Pretty much any card will do, the only reason I suggested the vendors above is for driver support. Some of the pc cards I've used in the past have been from companies that are no longer around and the drivers can be more difficult to find and are rarely updated. Although if it works you shouldn't need to update them.

To be honest I think the best solution would be to get another wrt54g flash it with DD-WRT-v23-mini put it in client mode, configure it to use a different subnet and enter your other routers ssid, wpa password and connect your desktop via ethernet cable to the client router. This gives you several advantages. 1) you can connect up to 4 computers to the client router 2) The router is free to be placed anywhere in the remote location and you just run ethernet cable from it to your desktop. 3) DD-WRT allows you to raise the transmission power to improve the connection. 4) The WRT54g routers have several antenna options to improve the connection quality and speed. 5) Chances are your desktop already has a NIC so all you would need is the router which costs about as much as some 54g pci cards.

It does have some drawbacks, namely flashing firmware can be hazard prone, but if you read up on it it's not too hard.

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Another note, I've been playing with this for the last couple hours and apparently you can only have one wired connection (not confirmed but it is in the documentation) to the router while it's in client mode, but it can be a switch or hub so you still have the ability to get more than one computer networked in the remote location.
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