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    wireless network cards in the Asus G73JH

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by shishio, Apr 9, 2010.

  1. shishio

    shishio Notebook Guru

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    Hello everyone,

    I would like to know whats the actual difference between the 2 network cards available for configuration with the Asus G73JH:
    Built-in 802.11 Wireless A/B/G/N - Stock Wireless Card
    -Intel® Advanced-N 6200 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module

    Thanks a lot!
     
    shishio, Apr 9, 2010
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    Sorry but this question cannot be answered unless you know anything more the "stock"- manufacturer and model number are needed.
     
    downloads, Apr 9, 2010
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    Ive got a stock wifi card from Asus before, the manufacturer was Azurewave and it uses Ralink drivers.

    Im not sure if this is the same one your model will use but its not bad compared to an Intel.
     
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    Asus support page for this model has two cards listed under wireless drivers- already mentioned Intel 6200 and Intel 1000.
    There are several problems with that. For one i1000 is available in two versions Intel (R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN (2 transmit 2 receive spatial streams) and Intel(R) WiFi Link 1000 (1 transmit and 2 receive). Hard to tell which one is inside this notebook.
    The other problem is the default card is supposed to be "a/b/g/n" while neither of i1000s is "a" capable.
    Don't know what the price difference is but provided that this notebook is rather expensive this shouldn’t make a difference- I'd skip the i1000 and go for 6200 instead.
     
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    I have a WRT54GS router and I can't seem to connect to it using the
    g73jh...I have the wep key and everything but when I try to connect it immediately says it isn't able to. Is there a setting somewhere I'm supposed to change so it connects to g routers?
     
    electric_buck, Apr 21, 2010
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    It's weird because the stock card is an Azurewave AR5895

    (I swapped in a 6200)
     
    betaflame, Apr 21, 2010
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    As I konw, AR5895 is b/g/n , 2.4 GHz, 150mbps
    intel 6200 have two type, one is a/b/g/n, another is a/b/g
    6200 a/b/g/n support 300Mbps
     
    james2012, Apr 24, 2010
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    It's possible that Azurwave is the default one- I just checked Asus support site for this notebook- maybe it's different adapter for different region.

    As for Intel 6200 I'm pretty sure that there's no version "a/b/g" you've mentioned- no way any recent Intel card wouldn't have "n".
    Also I found no information about such version on Wi-Fi alliance website- all I found is this a/b/g/n Intel 6200
     
    downloads, Apr 24, 2010
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