That's a strong possibility; I'll probably spend a few more days poking around at this, and then order that card or similar - I also found somebody on Ebay selling what they claim is an Intel adapter taken from an EliteBook 8560p for just a few bucks.
Thanks for the ideas, everybody. -- - David Fleck On Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 7:52 PM, Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM David Fleck dcfl...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > Using the Ookla speedtest site on a browser, my current laptop gets about > > 40-60 Mbps; the EliteBook gets about 0.2 - 0.4 Mbps. So I wasn't kidding > > about 2 orders of magnitude. Using simple pings around the local network, > > the EliteBook seems ok; ping response time is in line with the other > > machines, packets aren't getting dropped during the ping tests. > > > > It may be coincidental, but I noticed that twice during the times I was > > running the speedtest on the EliteBook, the Internet connection on other > > devices in the house dropped. Other times I ran the test, the connections > > were fine. So I wonder if there is some kind of interference going on, at > > least sometimes. > > > > I'm using 2.4GHz for the all the laptops in the house because the 2.4 > > signal seems to degrade much less with distance from the router than the > > 5Ghz. > > > One advantage of the 5GHz band is that, because it doesn't propagate > through walls as well, you aren't getting channel contention from > outside your house as much. > > I'd consider trying to replace the radio with one of the intel mini > pcie cards, like the one I linked somewhere above in this thread. > > -- > Russell Senior > russ...@personaltelco.net
