Just buy a mini pci Intel network card and be done with it. My msi netbook had some obscure Chinese brand and I swapped it for an Intel 5300 (not sure of the model) an the performance difference was like night and day.
These wifi cards cost like 30 bucks so its a cheap and cheerful upgrade. On May 12, 2010 10:32 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <amar...@charter.net> wrote: 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... > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.819 / Virus... >
