Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 range issues.

I have this wifi card in my Sager laptop. I connected it to the Samsung Epic 4G phone. The laptop shows the phone connected, but the phone keeps trying to "Obtain IP address from Laptop". Yet, the phone connection speed is 65mbs, excellent etc.
Is there a trick to set this WiFi card up so it has range etc.
I also use a Linkysys that the phone connects to when in the house for better signal, and is on while the laptop is on and trying to use the laptop as a WiFi hot spot.
Suggestions?

 

To my understanding you want your notebook to be a WiFi hotspot and share its internet connection with your Android phone?

Might want to check out Connectify.
Your Hotspot, Your Way - Connectify

 

I like the My Wifi program that can be selected during the intel wifi setup. I believe the Intel 6300 card is not on Connectifys list of compatible cards. I have the 5100 card it and the 5300 are on there list. I used Connectify prior to reading about the My Wifi program. The My Wifi program responds much quicker to being enabled or disabled. I will link to the download for it. You want the full program not just the driver. Don't worry if it uses an earlier driver. You can update to a newer driver after you setup the program. When you run the program choose custom instillation. Expand the tree so the My Wif program is selected during the instillation. Watch and choose a 32bit or 64bit versions according to what your system uses. Use the second page of listed drivers. Your card is compatible with the 13.4 not the 14.0 drivers.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Wireless+Networking&ProductLine=Wireless+Technologies&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+My+WiFi+Technology+%28Intel%C2%AE+MWT%29&ProdId=3017&LineId=1900&FamilyId=1783

 

Thanks for the link.
Yes I want to be able to use my laptop as a link so I can use my phone, when overseas, over the internet via a skype type thing.
The phone immediately see the signal, but it wont hold it. If it does grab the signal, it loses it and goes through the process of trying to reacquire it.

 

Here is a list of the wireless devices that are known to work with Connectify. Let me know if yours works with it. The My Wif program by Intel works with all the intel cards starting with the 5100.
List of devices that are known to be compatible with Connectify : Connectify Support

 

I guess I am confused. My laptop works great in regards to Wifi. But, my cell phone doesnt work well at all when using the Intel 6300 wifi card which acts as a Wifi hot spot.

 

Your wifi card has the ability to act as a hotspot. It is not natively setup for that. This is the reason you can not get your phone to hook up to it like your router. The first requirement is that you have Windows 7. Windows 7 allows the use of a virtual wifi mini port. This makes your wireless card act like two wireless cards, so it can both transmit and receive. To use this feature you need one of several programs. Two of them have been discussed. Connectify and the Intel program My Wifi. It is doubtful that Connectify will work as an access point with your Intel 6300 wireless card. But the same people who make your wireless card have a program called My Wifi and it should work on there wireless card which you have already.

 

I have My Wifi and Windows 7. It says my phone is connected. My phone keeps searching the and trying to obtain the IP address. I have manually installed the start and ending ip address in the phone to no avail no see if either works.
I guess I need to sit down with someone who knows what is going on to physically see my problem and see my settings within My Wifi programming and my phone.
My Wifi has a password, and the phone ask for it and I am running it in WPA2-PSK

 

You may have a setting not enabled or your phone may have a problem with the setup. Open up the intel my wifi utility window. you should see unshare my internet just below profiles. If it says share my internet click on it.
Here is a Video tutorial that may be of help also. how to use Intel Mywifi Technology to share internet on mobile devices - YouTube

 

Set channel width to 40MHz.

 

@OP

You don't need Connectify or My Wifi to setup virtual wifi. You can setup the network using command prompt and then have 2 scripts; one to turn it on and one to turn it off.

When virtual wifi is used, the wireless card is doing double duty. Range will be reduced if you are sharing the WiFi connection with the virtual wifi connection. There is no way around this other than to make sure that you are using the latest drivers and have good quality antennas (3 of them).

Setting channel width to 40 MHz does not increase range. It merely binds two channels together for more throughput at the cost of some range and increased power consumption.

As for your obtaining IP address issue, your laptop is not properly handling DHCP requests. Or, Internet Connection Sharing is not enabled.

I have the Intel 6300 card myself and I am sharing my wireless/wired connection with my wireless devices using virtual wifi. I am not using My Wifi or Connectify. These programs cause a lot of issues; especially Connectify. Also, Connectify is known to hog computer resources and cause micro stutters. Intel My Wifi adds a lot of bloat with the actual My Wifi program. Believe me, I tried both programs and then just created 2 simple scripts and use Task Scheduler to control my virtual wifi network.


If you want, I can upload my scripts for turning virtual wifi on/off and if people are really interested in how to do this without using any other programs other than what's already built into Windows 7, I can put some time into a guide or something; assuming that grad school doesn't kill me first.

 

metril thanks for info on this. I first used connectify and then went to My Wifi when I read about it. It causes less problems and unlike connectify it will start up and shutdown immediately.
I really like the idea of something that uses less resources. I would appreciate a guide on how to set the virtual wifi up without using these other programs. I believe others would be interested in this if they new about it. So if you set this up please start a new thread with an interesting heading.
Our young adults and friends have plenty of electronics and I prefer to limit access by enabling the virtual wifi when they are around instead of giving access through our router.
I have also found other uses for the virtual wifi. My sister recently went to fios and here wireless adapter for her desktop did not play well with the ActionTec Verizon modem router. I put connectify on her laptop and that worked fine with the setup and ran her desktop from her laptop transmission until I could get back over to her place with a different wireless adapter.

 

I went into profiles on MyWIFI program and the DHCP and DNS was enabled. I had this same problem with a Linkysys. Once I disabled it it works like a champ. I am not sure why the system defaults to this , or what it really is. But it works great now.
Thanks for everyones help.

 

I know it is an old thread of mine. But this thing has new software, Intel MyWifi dashboard now. It doesnt work. The phone connects, but no joy, no data is given to the phone. What can cause it to connect, be recognized by the dashboard, yet no data is received on the phone via wifi. (Phones wifi works fine anywhere else)

 

I also faced the same problem with new Intel MyWiFi dashboard, so I changed the name of profile in dashboard then reset the network setting in iPhone restart the system, now it's works.

 

Can you go into more detail. I have tried everything I can think of. Numbers/IP adresses, dhcp, anything helps. Strange how it connects but no data.

 

I hope you are using the 15.1.1 version of both your card and dashboard, try to flush the IP then restart the pc and try rest the network setting of phone. Well there one more thing you can do is change the channel of router starting from 2. I recently faced this issue with my Motorola Droid 3 handset it was not connecting to my router.

 

I have reset the IP, I have gone through the 11 channels, and have used the 15.1.1, and previous versions, just to try. I emailed xoticpc. I am going to ask my IT person. Very frustrating.