komplett.co.uk

Lord Derpington

Hey guys, was lookin for a new wireless card for my Dell Inspirion 9400 so i went onto Komplett.ie and found this for € 82.00

But then i thought that due to low value of sterling these days i would have a look at komplett.co.uk and have a bit of price comparison, and the exact same product here priced at £54.00...
But 54.00 GBP = 67.8484 EUR so im being ripped of by trying to buy from komplett.ie

I have tried to register with komplett.co.uk but they require a British postcode (BT1 1AA was gladly accepted) but i am a bit wary about spending money on a product that i have to give a false postcode for.

Does anyone know if this is safe enough to trow some money at?
Because if it would work, there would be massive savings to be had on komplett.co.uk compared to komplett.ie

(Sorry if this is in the wrong section...)

b0bsquish

Try asking over here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=242

Tails142

Very interesting

Lord Derpington

b0bsquish wrote: »

Try asking over here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=242

Thanks man, just asked there now. LINK

TM

Apologies if this is inappropriate in this context but ...

Do you need that card or 802.11n, MIMO etc. specifically? If not and a regular 802.11b/g card would do then you should not spend anything near €67 for it. For example www.DealExtreme.com have cards for about $16 including delivery. There are probably other similar outlets offering similar prices.

SQDD

Greenfly, both those prices are are rip off, you can get those cards from ebay for well under $20 - draft n type cards included, or like TM said, plenty of great deals from Dealextreme.. There's no worthy performance difference between a 54Mb card and a 300Mb card - trust me, I have both, and besides, unless you have the n-type router, you really are throwing money at komplette! Unless you're swapping 100s of gigs between computers wirelessly, the regular card b/g card will do just fine! Honestly, this comparison is bull$hit, the 54 b/g card will do all the features of the n card just as well - don't sucker in to the power of marketing!!



Like Voip, streaming HD, simultaneous downloads, etc, they're actually taking the piss. It's totally false advertising, You have to be downloading 7 MEGAbytes/sec to max out a 54Mb router, something which trust me, chances are you won't be doing. Honestly sure you can make voip calls from mobile phones now, and you hardly think they have n wireless chipsets in them To even use the n functionality you need a n type router, which they don't tell you, and no one has one of those by accident!!

Link for what you need: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1508 Price: E10.20 incl postage

Lord Derpington

Thanks guys, but the main problem is that i dont have a PCMCIA port, i have a Express card port... and the main reason i want the netgear card is for range extension which my current internal intel one cant reach to.

This is purely for situations like my college house which is close to college but just out of reach of the wireless, so i cannot upgrade the router i must upgrade my card and that netgear is the strongest one i could find.

Thanks for all the responses guys, very interesting stuff

SQDD

Hey Greenfly, in that case, what you're looking for is a cantenna, or a magnified usb stick... check out
http://www.instructables.com/id/usb-wifi-antenna/
Grab yourself a usb wifi stick for under E20, a metal sieve and away ya go!!
Call me a cynic but the whole rangemax thing is overrated, there's not massive difference, as in on my laptop, I can pick up 5 signals through the inbuilt b/g and 6 with the n card.. hope ya find above useful, the usb/sieve trick will outperform a PCMCIA/Express card any day

Oracle

That's a cool DIY gadget with the sieve. I love homemade gadgets like that. The ultimate bargain alert.

rom

SQDD wrote: »

Greenfly, both those prices are are rip off, you can get those cards from ebay for well under $20 - draft n type cards included, or like TM said, plenty of great deals from Dealextreme.. There's no worthy performance difference between a 54Mb card and a 300Mb card - trust me, I have both, and besides, unless you have the n-type router, you really are throwing money at komplette! Unless you're swapping 100s of gigs between computers wirelessly, the regular card b/g card will do just fine! Honestly, this comparison is bull$hit, the 54 b/g card will do all the features of the n card just as well - don't sucker in to the power of marketing!!



Like Voip, streaming HD, simultaneous downloads, etc, they're actually taking the piss. It's totally false advertising, You have to be downloading 7 MEGAbytes/sec to max out a 54Mb router, something which trust me, chances are you won't be doing. Honestly sure you can make voip calls from mobile phones now, and you hardly think they have n wireless chipsets in them To even use the n functionality you need a n type router, which they don't tell you, and no one has one of those by accident!!

Link for what you need: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1508 Price: E10.20 incl postage

This is true but for me I have an Airport Extreme and am playing divx from it through an attached drive. If it wasn't an N connection then it wouldn't work. As for N I have lots of neighbors on b/g and I have a lot of interference. As everything I have is draft N I can use that and interference is not a problem. Also my range is better. I do agree that there is 0 reason to get an N card if you don't ever plan a router upgrade.

If your hardcore then N ain't good enough even so I use Gigabit backbone.

As N routers go the airport extreme is the best. I have used a god few.

Cr8or

I noticed this on the apple UK store.. prices (From) for a mac book - £699 = €876.131

retail price (From) on the irish website is €999 .. €123 difference in price

Lord Derpington

Cr8or wrote: »

I noticed this on the apple UK store.. prices (From) for a mac book - £699 = €876.131

retail price (From) on the irish website is €999 .. €123 difference in price

it gets worse than that man, try strollin over to the US site, where the same system is $1,099.00 or €697.33...

Thanks guys, i might give that dish a go pretty sure i have a USB one floatin round somewhere.

bazwaldo

SQDD wrote: »

Hey Greenfly, in that case, what you're looking for is a cantenna, or a magnified usb stick... check out
http://www.instructables.com/id/usb-wifi-antenna/
Grab yourself a usb wifi stick for under E20, a metal sieve and away ya go!!
Call me a cynic but the whole rangemax thing is overrated, there's not massive difference, as in on my laptop, I can pick up 5 signals through the inbuilt b/g and 6 with the n card.. hope ya find above useful, the usb/sieve trick will outperform a PCMCIA/Express card any day

Would something similar work for mobile 3g broadband?

Lord Derpington

well afaik 3g mobile broadband is most everywhere, so there is no real place you can point the antenna to gain signal. Unlike the idea of the sieve, which is coming from a definative source. So in short i dont think it would help for mobile broadband...

kirving

Wouldn't 802.11n be much better for wirless home networking though?

NinjaTruncs

for what it's worth I bought a Camera and Ipod speaker from the .ie site, I've just checked the cost on the .co.uk site and there was only about 2 euro in the difference, so the discrepency the OP reported may be product dependent rather than across the board.