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The wireless adaptor on my laptop sucks. This one good?
Posted: 2007-10-22 03:59am
by Superman
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I'm thinking of getting this one for my laptop. Anyone know of any better adapters that basically look like this for around the same price?
Posted: 2007-10-22 05:39am
by Glocksman
What kind of laptop do you have?
I didn't like (no support for WPA2 encryption) the internal Dell wireless card in my Latitude D820, so I replaced it with an internal Intel 3945ABG card.
You probably could do the same thing with your laptop, instead of using an external adapter.
Posted: 2007-10-22 05:54am
by Superman
Glocksman wrote:What kind of laptop do you have?
I didn't like (no support for WPA2 encryption) the internal Dell wireless card in my Latitude D820, so I replaced it with an internal Intel 3945ABG card.
You probably could do the same thing with your laptop, instead of using an external adapter.
I have a Gateway MT3421. It has an onboard 802.11g wireless LAN card, but the range sucks ass, it seems to have intermittent problems, and needs to be replaced. I was told it would cost quite a bit to replace it with an internal device, but I'm not sure if that's really the case.
Posted: 2007-10-22 06:20am
by Glocksman
According to Gateway's site, your machine has a cover on the bottom for the Mini-PCI slot* and that'd be where your existing card is located.
You can find Intel 2200BG wireless cards on eBay for around $20 or so.
*Mine is under the keyboard and it took a little more work to swap out.
Posted: 2007-10-22 06:35am
by Pu-239
I thought most dell wireless drivers really have broadcom chipsets? You might have been able to use the HP broadcom drivers to get WPA2 (I did that w/ a crappy Linksys card based on a broadcom chip)
I prefer Atheros over intel, always worked better for me, plus more features like SoftAP. However I'm also using Linux, so the drivers are different
Here's a minipci version
http://www.google.com/products?q=minipc ... &scoring=p
Some d-link pc cards also have these.
You're probably safer w/ Intel on Windows though. Before replacing your card, you probably should make sure it's not your access point going bad.
Posted: 2007-10-22 06:38am
by Glocksman
It was a Broadcom, and I didn't even think of trying non Dell drivers.
Posted: 2007-10-22 08:50am
by Superman
Glocksman wrote:According to Gateway's site, your machine has a cover on the bottom for the Mini-PCI slot* and that'd be where your existing card is located.
You can find Intel 2200BG wireless cards on eBay for around $20 or so.
Woot! Thanks!