Reddit reviews NETGEAR WN111 Wireless-N 300 USB Adapter

I know everyone really regales that powerline is truly the best option if wireless or ethernet is out of the question.. But seriously I've had nothing but problems with it.

What is your ISP? If you have verizon, and have cable hooked up in a lot of the rooms, you can get an extra MoCA adapter and that way you will end up with not only a discrete solution but a hardline as well giving you the best possible performance. I believe comcast has a similar option, but if your house is being fed internet already with an ethernet cord right out of the box, it might not be the best solution.

Wirless USB works just fine for me. I have this netgear for when I had no wired connection for my desktop. I had no problems doing absolutely everything with it and I paid the original $70 or so for it also.. At $12, makes this stupidly simple.

I see. Well, thats $60 or a new motherboard or a new WiFi card then. Sorry that i don't have better news.

Amazon has WiFi USB stick for $10...

I think you mean just sticking a USB wifi card in the gaming PC and "connecting everything" to the wifi network then, yes, sure, that'd be fine.

The reason the PC laptop can't see the gaming PC at present is that it's "hidden" behind the NAT that the Mabook has setup.

I tend to favour wired ethernet in general, and in principle I would say that 2 or 3 computers in the same room should be connected with cables.

In practice, we can run wifi upstairs without the wife tripping over it, and practically everything in my house is wireless, too - in fact I'm thinking of getting one of these wifi bridges myself, to connect a couple of PCs which are merely a meter or two away from the router, simply to save me drilling a single hole in a wall.

In contrast to /u/e60deluxe's comments, I've never had a bad experience with a wireless bridge, but I've only used them a handful of times.

I'm currently having a problem with a USB adaptor I bought for $3 on eBay, but at that price you can afford to buy a handful of them from different sellers, and see which one you find most reliable - another one I bought at the same time, and identical in appearance, uses a different chipset and works fine. Spending $10 or $20 on a name brand one will probably alleviate the risk of problems.