Best Wireless Minicard for Dell Latitude 620 and Netgear WGR614?

The subject pretty much sums it up.

My wife's latitude 620 has been dropping connection at her office after working for only a couple of days. I've tried more than one wireless router there, so I suspect it's the Dell/Broadcom 1490 minicard that is the problem. Right now it's a Netgear WGR614 v6. (It took substantial effort experimenting with drivers just to get this card to connect, arggh!) At home we have a WPN824 v2.

I've read some good things (or just WackyT repeating himself ) about the Atheros-based adapters. Based on other info I turned up in a search, that may match the chipset used in our Rangemax router at home. But I'm not really after speed - I just want reliable connections.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dave

 

I am not sure exactly if your laptop has a restrictive whitelist on its wireless cards, but I might suggest the Thinkpad 11a/b/g PCI-e wireless card. Its an Atheros based card, and it has been working with every network I have been around. You can also pick it up for like 40 bucks from most places.

 

Yup... The Atheros based A/B/G is what I use in my Dell...