Hi all
Just recieved an Inspiron 14Z from Dell
Issue is with wireless - we did have problems initially with wireless disconnects and genrally slow speeds
Im not entirely sure but removing Mcafee seemed to help with the disconnects at least - load of rubbish imo
Now my only other major issue is with wireless speeds on the 1703 card
I seem to max out at about 45mb on all broadband speed tests - while on another laptop I get the full speeds of 80mb on the same server at the same location
Im only getting a link speed of 72Mbps in the networking tab of Task Manager and this does seem rather slow - the other laptop gets 450Mbps (better wireless card - to go with my Asus N66U Router)
Anyway my thought process is that the 1703 wireless card is not up to much in the inspiron 14z- I understand that the 1703 card is wireless and bluetooth combined - with I think 2 antenna for bluetooth and wireless
Now I dont use bluetooth much if at all - so does it make sense to buy just a wireless card and connect the two antennas to the card and therefore losing bluetooth connectivity but gaining better wireless connection???
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated .........any wireless card recommendations with or without bluwtooth
I think I have an Intel Centrino WiFi Ultimate N 6300 in the other laptop by the way - that has three antenna connections - if I get another one of these and only connect two antennas - how does that affect speeds
Should I just look at cards with two antenna connections
Thanks for any advice guys
Just recieved an Inspiron 14Z from Dell
Issue is with wireless - we did have problems initially with wireless disconnects and genrally slow speeds
Im not entirely sure but removing Mcafee seemed to help with the disconnects at least - load of rubbish imo
Now my only other major issue is with wireless speeds on the 1703 card
I seem to max out at about 45mb on all broadband speed tests - while on another laptop I get the full speeds of 80mb on the same server at the same location
Im only getting a link speed of 72Mbps in the networking tab of Task Manager and this does seem rather slow - the other laptop gets 450Mbps (better wireless card - to go with my Asus N66U Router)
Anyway my thought process is that the 1703 wireless card is not up to much in the inspiron 14z- I understand that the 1703 card is wireless and bluetooth combined - with I think 2 antenna for bluetooth and wireless
Now I dont use bluetooth much if at all - so does it make sense to buy just a wireless card and connect the two antennas to the card and therefore losing bluetooth connectivity but gaining better wireless connection???
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated .........any wireless card recommendations with or without bluwtooth
I think I have an Intel Centrino WiFi Ultimate N 6300 in the other laptop by the way - that has three antenna connections - if I get another one of these and only connect two antennas - how does that affect speeds
Should I just look at cards with two antenna connections
Thanks for any advice guys