If you’ve bought a new motherboard in the past year or so, as well as 16x PCI Express slots for hot new graphics cards, it’s probably also got 1x PCI-E slots. Aside from some high-end RAID cards and other assorted exotica, there’s not been anything useful for the masses to stick in these; well, no longer. I found Abit makes a WiFi card with a 1x PCI-E interface called the Airpace. I picked one up for my work PC (a Shuttle) from YoYoTech for £20; hardware wise, it’s great, absolutely tiny and a cinch to install – although it’s only 802.11g, not pre-N. The software is a little weird too; so far I’ve not actually needed to use the Abit disc, with WinXP picking the card up fine on its own… Still it’s worked well enough for me to write this post
Ingredients
Journalist Alex Watson, technology, books, reading, photography, the Far East, the iPhone, technology’s role in creativity, lots of caffeineMethods of consumption
Greatest Hits…
...Although none of these were ever Number 1s in Azerbaijan, Japan or on college radio.
* On visiting countries that have been the subject of airstrikes by allies of your home country
* Why it's important for The Beatles to make their songs available digitally
* A visit to Peleliu, home of some fascinating WW2 relics and origin of the phrase 'thousand yard stare'
* Five ways to beat writer's block and get words going
* On Holbein and Shakespeare
* Blights on the English language - most hateful words in techFrom which department?
This is the past


pointless much, isnt the point of wifi to go somewhere else to use it not host a wifi cafe
@idk – Wifi at home’s great. No need for messy cables everywhere. Some people in my house (namely The Jesteress) appreciate that. Plus you can connect more devices to the router than you can with wires…