topic Re: wireless lan speed in Communications and Wireless

wireless lan speed

bluesteel310 — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:31:14 GMT

I have a new dv5040us. It has a built in wireless lan card. I was told this can achieve speeds up to 108mbs. My router is that fast, but the card still piddles along at 54.

Is there a setting I need to change to get this up to speed?

Thanks!

Re: wireless lan speed

Derek Whigham_1 — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:21:44 GMT

The DV5040us only has a 54G wireless network card, So will never connect at 108Mbs! If you really need 108Mb then buy a cheap PCMCIA card.
Though I find 54G absoultly fine for even media streaming.

Re: wireless lan speed

Rich S — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:24:16 GMT

You would need a card like the extreme card. If your router is at 108, than just buy a matching G card for your laptop.

example:

http://mobileoffice.about.com/cs/laptops/tp/laptopcards.htm

I know every major brand name has a 108 card now. D-link, Cisco etc.

You will not ever get the "extreme" G speeds without a card that supports that.

Rich

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