Bam!
I got my Dell Latitude XT to recognize the 5G band of the 3700! Now it
reports 270 Mbps. Haven't had time to test it, though, but that's a
feel good moment.
Turns out the problems was the damn laptop. It has a Dell Wireless 1505
Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini card in it. Googling revealed all kind of
problems with this card....but I finally got around to looking for a
Windows 7 64-bit driver. That got me to someone claiming that the
updated driver for this device has the problems. So the solution was the
delete it (and the files too) and let Win7 reinstall its stock driver.
Well, lo and behold, the laptop now sees both the 2.4 and 5 G band
networks, as well as their SSIDs. Simple matter after that to get up
and going.
Not sure I'm going to let the laptop live there, though. I don't really
need it for faster downloads. I'd like to give all of that bandwidth to
my Tivo downstairs, if possible. On the other hand...I don't use the
laptop that much here so sharing probably wouldn't be much of a problem.
But now I can use the laptop to see what kind of 5GHz signal I get
downstairs near the Tivo.
I swore a long time ago to NEVER buy another dell anything. What I
didn't swear was to let someone else buy me a dell something. Well, no
more dell for me. Period. Same with Apple.
Did y'all hear that Verzion and Google claim to be working on an Android
Tablet? I hope they keep on track with that as competition is a good thing.
On 5/12/2010 1:59 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
Are both n and g enabled?
Set the band to 6 just to make sure. Also give the firmware update a go.
On May 12, 2010 5:57 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin"<amar...@charter.net> wrote:
Man...none of my stuff can see any wireless signals coming from this router.
I'm wondering if it is sending out any signals. It's setup to broadcast
its SSID but even with my laptop right next to it, it can't see it. What
gives here? The wired 1000Gbps ports work fine and the lights for the
2.4GHZ and 5 GHz wireless are shining bright.
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