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Dell wireless card performing poorly
I'm working away from home, and the accommodations I've been provided have wireless Internet. The Dell Inspiron 640m I purchased last September has a 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN mini-card. My work laptop (which I am on now) is an HP nc6400 which has a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. Unfortunately, I cannot get very good reception on the Dell, sometimes down to 1.0 Mbps or no reception at all. Meanwhile the HP is getting 54 Mbps constantly.
From what I've read, the newer 802.11n is supposed to have greater range and faster speed than the older 802.11b/g. I've also read that the 802.11n has not yet been ratified. Does it make sense that the 802.11n has been performing so poorly, and does it have to do with the ratification process (or lack thereof)?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
- I tried updating the driver, it came back saying I have the most up to date. I'm guessing it must have something to do with the 802.11n protocol not working well with the router in this building. Is there any word on whether 802.11n goes through walls better/worse than 802.11b/g?
- I don't think so. I've gone into control panel, device manager, network adapter and under the advanced tab for the wireless card. There is an option to switch between 802.11 h or d but that's all I can see. Any thoughts on where else it may be switchable?
markomarko
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Posted May 12th, 2007 05:00
Has anyone have been able to solve this problem?? I am currently experiencing this one. Im about 2 meters closer to the router. There are other laptops much farther from mine but they are having 54Mbps speed. I have the same wireless card as he has. Please reply to this post if anyone knows how to fix this. Thanks in advance.- No, I haven't been able to solve the problem. I've tried adjusting some of the settings in the properties section for the wireless card, but no dice. There is a setting where you can choose which singal the card uses instead of 802.11n... I chose 802.11g and still no better.
- I can chime in and say the wireless N setting cannot hold a connection with a Linksys Wireless N router. I have tried for several months now, with updated drivers and firmware. Same old, same old...loses the connection when the wireless card is set with N enabled. I can change the wireless card to g and it stays connected.
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Posted May 8th, 2007 09:00