looking for the fastest possible wireless connection

i'm on a linksys wrt160n and intel 5100 card. i've never paid any attention to wireless speed until upgrading my wrt54g to the 160n where i'm now getting 135k as opposed to 54k and see quite a noticeable difference. i would be willing to move up the ladder on either/or the network card and router to get whatever's highest. i'm told 150k is the max i can get given my current setup (though i haven't figured out how to achieve that), i know the router i'm on is capable of 300k so an idea on what kind of card to get would work but if i go even higher i can still return this router and use the money towards something stronger. money is not too much of an issue.

 

anyone then?

 

Well, it's not just the card you're using, but the number of antennas your laptop has. If your laptop has enough antennas (and they don't whitelist PCI ID's) you can just pop in a 5300 and get a router capable of more data streams. But if your laptop isn't outfitted with the extra antennas that weren't necessary with the 5100, you're pretty well SOL.

It can also be tricky to find enough open channels at 2.4Ghz (each data stream needs it's own channel, and 2.4Ghz is a common band), which means you'd almost certainly want to use 5Ghz. For that you'll need a dual band router/WAP or multiple WAPs if you have any devices that can't operate at 5Ghz (anything 802.11b/g)

Sorry, it's all rather complex and I've really not read on it much, so I can't be much help. But I thought I'd try, anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n