Buying a motherboard variant without WiFi to save 100€ is the worst financial decision ever...

Here I am, after spending over 300€ in USB adapters first, then PCIe boards, buying another one because it broke again...
The alternative is to buy a new motherboard (gen 4 in 2023?!) or change the whole system... two even worse financial options.

hmm i think it's okay for pc. Just run a long cable from the router. Heck speeds will be better too. Or.. use usb tethering from your phone?

Or buy any USB wifi NIC, which don't cost anywhere near 300 bucks?

Who even needs network

wifi usb adapters are like 20 bucks what are you doing

This does not make sense. At all.

@Nanos the one I'm currently using cost me ~30€. I'd say it's a pretty good one as it serves incomparably better (faster, more stable) wifi than my wifi AC router.

some wifi mainboards have the same problems as wifi cards. They're not a silver bullet. However, i ask you, would you rather replace the mainboard 3 times, or the wifi card 3 times?

Matter of fact just look around on amazon or ebay (or equivalent in your country) and read the comments.

Other than that: just use cable 🤷

RJ45 is the answer. Splurge on cat7 if possible. You never know when you need to increase to 10GBit.
RJ45 tool is like 20$.
Measure twice and take your time and you have a good feeling that it was installed correctly.
With a cabel channel it will look professional.
RJ45 wall socket is optional but better than just a cable coming from cabel channel.

@2Fdev2Ftcsh either that, or if you don't have a lot of hardware, just buy premade cables. I have a decent network at home, complete with switches, routers, and APs for phones, and i swear, cables are by far the cheapest part of it (even cat7).

And yet you could just use a 10 buck Ethernet cable

if you're doing _any_ networking that's of _any_ importance, you ARE going to want a cabled connection anyway.

and for anything else - usb (or for internal mounting m.2) wifi adapters are dirt cheap - if you spend 300€ on it, there's something very very wrong with your money management skills.

Any USB WiFi nic will work okay
An actual WiFi PCI card would be better but honestly a complete waste. If you want a good connection you go wired not wireless.

You all missed a point (I didn't write clear enough), €300 is all adapters combined and I've changed 6 over 4 years.
They were between €30 and €60 each.

@Alexanderr great info, thanks