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Intel PROSet Wireless Signal Quality
I have an Inspiron 6000 laptop with an Intel PROSet Wireless adapter built in. I've noticed that the signal quality is all over the place meaning it will drop from excellent to fair constantly. The speed will also change as well. I thought maybe it was the router so I changed the router but that didn't change anything. I even moved the laptop closer to the router thinking the signal quality would improve. Again, that changed nothing. It was as if the laptop had never moved. Also there are no 2.4 GHz phones in the house.
I changed the default channel to 11 and didn't change anything either. What is up with that? Is this normal for these adapters to fluctuate like this? I think I got better signal when I used the wireless pcmcia card. I figured that having built-in wireless would be a nice thing but I have to say I am less than impressed with the performance.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
- I installed the latest drivers from Intel but the situation is still the same. After about 30 mins the signal quality drops to 'fair' after starting out 'excellent' or 'very good'. Every now and then it will fluctuate but for the most part it stays at 'Fair'. The wireless router is not that far away and as I stated earlier, even moving the laptop closer to the router didn't change anything.
Hi, I am having the same problem. I bought Dell Inspiron6000 few months back. I also noticed the same thing. Wireless signal goes very weak after some time. Internet sites request takes lot of time to download, even sometime it does not work and request gets timeout while pinging. Its really weired problem. wireless link does not works properlly.
I have windows XP Home addition and Intel Proset2915 wireless adapter. I have checked the new driver version but it does not work.
Please help me out to fix this problem. It seems there is problem with Dell Inspiron6000 and Intel Proset 2915 wireless adaptor.
Please provide some link if there is any on this to reolve this.
Thanks,
- I recently installed a 2915 in my Ispiron 4150 and am seeing the same kind of signal fluctuation up and down. I got this adapter to use with my Netgear RangeMax router so I wouldn't have a PCI card sticking out of the side of the notebook, but the Netgear PCI Card holds a rock solid signal. I'll probably go back to the Netgear adapter unless someone posts a workable solution. The 2915 has never lost the signal, but it fluctuates between a high of 54 Mbps and a low in the 20s.
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Posted September 3rd, 2005 04:00
get the latest drivers directly from www.intel.com
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-010623.htm
Message Edited by NemesisDB on 09-03-2005 01:49 AM