I have an Inspiron E1505 about 1 month old with Vista pre-loaded.  I noticed the first few days while using my wireless connection that the signal strength icon never got above 3 bars, or 60%.  This never changed at home whether I was 50 feet or 2 feet away from my wireless router.  The same was true for a couple of wireless hotspots that I tested.  In an effort to resolve this, I went to the Intel web site and found an updated driver.  I downloaded this driver and the signal strength issue was resolved.  I now had excellent strength displayed (all bars green) when I was a reasonable distance from a wireless router.  This seemed to work ok for a few days.  Then I began to have wireless dropouts.  The wifi radio indicator would shut off at random, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after a couple of hours.The only way to get the wifi back on was to reboot.  I troubleshot this problem for a couple of weeks to no avail.  Finally I rolled back the driver to the approved Dell version, and this fixed the problem. The wireless connection has been rock solid for several days now. However, I am back to the signal strength issue reading only 3 bars when it should be all bars green.  I believe this is a "cosmetic issue" as loading web pages seems to compare to my XP laptop on my home network.  I wonder if this is a driver issue as this latest Intel driver fixed the signal strength issue for me but seemed to cause random wireless dropouts.  Anyone else have this problem or am I the only one?