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id like to turn one of my pc's to be wireless so i can put it in another room, it currently has an ethernet wire connection.

would a USB dongle be good enough to game online with ? or should i get a wireless board put in ?

anyone recommend what type/make to buy pls ?

is it an easy job to do ?

Wireless card always if you can, USB often have problems, especially if your computers working hard and you use WPA or WPA2 security (for heavens sake don't use WEK).

Any card will usually behave itself but you may get better performance if its the same make as the router.

What standard/speed is your router, if its a giz-it its probably not wireless-N which would give the best performance.

yer a belkin dongle would work fine.

my router is a sky one the newest black one , sorry cant be more specific its not in sight

basically my kid plays warcraft and i want it to be able to deal with that game online

ive used both dongle and pci

the dogle worked best for some reason and is easyier to set up for a novice.

You will not loose speed or performance if you hard wire your PC to the router via the Ethernet connection. This is the most reliable method. I use a PC in one room and it is quite close to the router so I have hardwired it and I get faster download speeds. With wireles connections you can loose a certain percentage of your conection speed "over the air" and can be prone to interference etc.

My xbox is wireless and it works fine

Have you considered running your network through your existing home electricity circuit. thats right your normal electricity circuit can carry a network signal from one socket (ie, the one the computer is plugged into) to another socket (i.e the one the router is plugged into) providing they are on the same circuit.

All you need is a pair of powerline adapters. I personally have the comtrend 902, I prefer this type as it has a electricity socket on it so you dont actually loose a wall socket by using them.

Heres some ebay links;
Comtrend 902
Homeplug

Wow cheers Waddi, didn't know about this, do you keep all speed using this method?

The Comtrends that I have have a data transfer rate of 200Mbps.

That's good to know, thanks