Hi,

i bought a new Dell Vostro 1500 about a month ago. It came with an integrated Dell Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card.
The problem came out today when i turned on my laptop. At first "Acquiring network address" was delayed. Finally the laptop got the addresses and i tried browsing but the internet was totally frozen or, for a few seconds, worked very slowly.

I pinged my router. Pings range(-d) from 1-2 to 2000-3000 with timeouts, sometimes getting better, sometimes going to 5-6 timeouts in a row. Signal is excellent, speed varies from 54mbps to 11 or even 5.5.

The router is Asus WL530G, standing behind 2 doors without any walls on the way. Another laptop with wireless connection is having no problems, ping doesn't timeout even though the computer is behind a thick wall.

Tried updating drivers to those from dell's site.

I remember when i first started using this laptop i noticed a drop in performance of internet connection compared to what i had while using a cable to connect to the router. Maximum speed i could reach was 1.2 mb/s (several times more with a cable->router link). Now thinking back I think there was also a decrease in browsing speed, compared to cable. Maybe the problem persisted since i bought it...i'm not sure.

Any ideas... ?


EDIT: I'm using Windows XP