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    4965AGN Problems

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by colnago, Apr 30, 2008.

  1. colnago

    colnago Newbie

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    I've been experiencing slower and slower connection speeds and many dropped connections with this card in the last month or so. It's in a ThinkPad T61 running XP Pro (I posted on the Lenovo forum and it was suggested this might be a better place to ask for advice). So here it is:

    I'm running the latest driver for the card. Power management on the card is set to maximum performance. I've updated the wireless router software (a Netgear WGR614). The other computers connected to the network (albeit wired) aren't having problems. Plus it seems half the time I try to "repair this connection" it stalls on "disabling network adapter" until I restart...just as the system is about to shut down it "enables" - too late, of course! Lenovo says I have a software issue since signal strength always shows as excellent even as connection speeds hover in the 5.5 - 11 Mbps range. Even when it shows 54 Mbps the browser still hangs up with frozen cursor constantly.

    Is the Intel card no good or is there something I can do in the configuration to cure this? It's driving me crazy!
     
    colnago, Apr 30, 2008
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  2. Sparky 1720

    Sparky 1720 Notebook Consultant

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    I have two laptops with this card and they both work perfectly. I am however using a wrt600n router from linksys.

    If you search in this particular catergory for 4965 you will find some info on tweaking.

    Such as the card only gets max speeds in the 5ghz band not 2.4ghz. Turn on WPA-2 security.
     
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