Which network card?

Primary usage will be home and WiFi hotspots. Looking at Intel 4965, 3945, & Dell 1505 wireless-N. Looking forward to your suggestions. Thanks:

 

I'm really enjoying my intel 4965 (the firmware is upgradeable via driver updates per intel web site)

 

def the 4965 out of those choices.......

 

Intel 4965. its wifi - certified under N. So, when it gets ratified past "draft", it will just be a firmware update. If its not wifi - certified, you wont be able to get real N. The Dell card probably isnt wifi-certified. At least i can imagine. Also, id take intel brand over anything Dell.

 

I've been searching around with the same question and have ran into different answers... so far, most users with intel 4965 claimed that they can only get up to 130Mbps with their draft N router (specifically D-link 655). Only one poster claimed that he got 300Mbps with his D-link router using a Dell 1505. Wonder if anyone out there getting 300Mbps with the D-link 655, and so, which card has been used. Thanks

 

The 4965 only will get you the top speeds on the 5ghz band. 2.4 ghz will only get you 130.

Nobscot posted in another thread that the Dlink 655 is a single band router which explains why I only got 130Mbps with my card. I assumed it was a Dual band when I tried one. Looking at their info page for the router and spec page "Dual Band" does not appear anywhere on the page.

Again quoting other information I have read, Intel says they chose the 5GHZ band because the 2.4 ghz is overcrowded which is true but it would have been nice to have been given the choice.

 

I see. Thank you Sparky. I will search around for a better combination then...

 

I also noted someone else said that the 655 can be set to 5ghz instead of 2.4 ghz but that limits you to A/N only at that point so if a buddy comes over with a G only device there out of luck.

Thats why I liked the dual band. My in-laws come and they have G only.

 

I don't know who said that Sparky, but the DIR 655 is a single band 2.4GHz N router. No dual band, not dual radios. It can transmit on B, B&G, G, G&N,B&G&N....

There is NO option for 5GHz...........anywhere...........

 

Free information is worth every penny you pay for it

I posted that I could not get 270Mbps with 4965AGN card and someone said they could when they set it t5ghz and it worked... to be honest I thought it was you but I will look for it to make sure I am not getting old and losing my mind or misread it.

edit:

I found the post, I did in fact mis-read it.

 

Free information is free, you don't pay for it, right?

I guess what you are trying to say is; GOOD free information is worth it.

 

Unfortunately, having had numerous experiences with the "advice" I paid for - i.e., service reps - and with the advice I've gotten for free here, all I can say is, for some bizarre reason, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the quality of the advice and the amount I paid for it.

 

Shyster, while true... you can at least lodge a complaint with management when you pay for it. Threatening to cut off the money flow usually gets notice. I say this coming from a large enterprise environment that spends millions on things like this.

I once had Dell gold tech support call me when I had a problem and standard support said it couldnt be fixed (which is all we paid for BTW.. standard support). I called the sales rep and said no more dells will be bought until this problem is resolved. Within 30 minutes gold support called me and gave me the solution

You can't really complain about free advice or to the person giving it though

 

I have the Dell Wlan 1505 card. It works, but not that well. I am having trouble with drivers and according to some "it isn't compatible with wpa2" but I don't have problems on some WPA2 networks.

For wireless cards, I would go with Artheros or Intel

 

Regrettably, that really only works with large businesses that have the $$ weight to throw around. Little folk like us consumers don't get much respect at all; letters and whatnot to management usually get circular-filed

and customer reps cut you off if they don't like the tone of your voice.

With the free advice you get here, you can at least come back and kvetch in public, and frequently the original advise-giver will come up with the right answer on the second go-round in order to salvage his/her image/reputation.

 

go for intel wireless N

 

My DIR-655 works flawless with both G&N I can't set mine to only N because of my net radio, but on my laptop Dell XPS m1530 with Dell 1505 wireless which by the way is a Broadcomm 4322agn wireless. I get approx. 230 to 270 mbps and haven't seen it gone down below that. Set your adapters advance settings to: Afterburner - enabled, Xpress Technology to - enable. Download the latest Broadcomm driver from HP's website, I did a search for the Broadcomm 4322 drivers and showed up on HP's site. Extract then install using the .inf file don't install the exe file extract and update the driver through device manager.