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Dell Inspiron 17R network upgrade.

Discussion in 'Dell' started by DBedgood, Dec 4, 2011.

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Hi,

I recently purchased the above laptop and found that the network cards maximum speed is 100MB. I was wondering if it's possible to swap this out for a 10/100/1000 network card?

Appreciate any thoughts on this.

DBedgood, Dec 4, 2011

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Unfortunately NIC's are soldered onto the motherboard. I don't know if they make USB Gigabit NIC...I know 10/100 exists. I believe the N7010/N7110 is a removable daughterboard but still soldered.

Any reason you want to upgrade? Your internet won't be much faster cause you are gigabit.

Tsunade_Hime, Dec 4, 2011

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I want to upgrade as I have purchased a gigabit switch. I copy large files across my network to my NAS so the extra speed is definitely required. As it's soldered I have purchased a USB 2.0 gigabit ethernet adapter instead. Granted it won't be full gigabit due to the limitation of USB 2.0 but it will still be around 60MB/s which is about 5 times quicker than it's currently running at with the 10/100 network card in the laptop. When they eventually bring out USB 3.0 gigabit ethernet adapters then I'll upgrade to one of those.

DBedgood, Dec 5, 2011

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