OK my situation is of course, I'm far away from my router. In another house to be exact so a repeater or a powerline really won't help. The router is a DLink DGL-4500. Which is dual band, but only 1 at a time. I have read that 2.4 is better at range than 5.0, is that true? and I guess up to 450 Mbs being N - so the site says. It's a decent router but I do need to buy a new ac adapter for it, and it needs to be reset quite frequently. Updated to firmware 1.23NA
That being said, my current wireless adapter is a Rosewill RNX-N180UBE which is 2.4 only, up to 150 mbs with a 5 dBi antena - with it I currently have 44% signal strength, 92% link quality, Tx = 30 Mbs Rx = 1 Mbs. I can't find any info on the power output.
It's had it's use but looking around the market of external USB adapters, I figure I should go bigger.
I am contemplating that bearextender, coupled with the bigger antenna. The two in total is near $75 so it's not chea. The antenna is 7 dBi, and it is boosted to 1200 mW but it would be absurd a USB port could support that. Same band and output as what I'm using. Though it seems pretty commercial.<div>
The other option is the Alpha AWUS036H It comes with a 9 dBi antenna, 500 mW - remember we are talking about what a 5v usb port? But it's dual band 150/300 ect.. never mind it's $50 in total, $25 less than the one above.
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I am sorry if there are posts like this all over the place, I've found old ones. Posts about adapters in RV's ect. Most aren't convulsive and shady, for a reason I guess but still. Most official adapter reviews are for pen drive adapters, and I've spent hours on this.
If there's any advice of better options than the ones I've listed above I would welcome the advise, thanks a ton.

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