Re: Inspiron 2200 wirless card, unreliable

Excellent advice. Doesn't correct the driver problems, but that does eliminate the large overhead for the Intel utility.

Christopher Muto wrote:
as stated by others on the site you referr to... use that default windows drivers and allow windows to control the card (not the intel utility).

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Read the thread. Also tried multiple drivers. The problems with the Intel cards remain unaddressed by Intel.

Go back through multiple drivers released for these cards. Read the release notes. Note that Intel has not addressed the issue of the card reporting it is transmitting at one power setting but is in fact transmitting at another rate (this is certainly a bug). No release notes address this issue.

Christopher Muto wrote:


and if you read that thread you would see several people who found solutions to the problem. most notable is the one on the first page by the user name indigo (solved with a different driver as previously suggested).

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David Lawn wrote:







I have an Inspiron 2200 with a built in wireless card and a Dell 2350
wireless router.

When I switch on it connects to the internet with the icon in the system
tray quoting a speed of 54.0 Mbps but when I try to browse the speed quoted,
drops to 1.0Mbps and browsing is impossible..

I'm running with WEP not enabled on XP

I have the Dell utility on the laptop and I sometimes get the message from
XP that I should use that to configure the connection. Should it be an adhoc
connection.

Sometimes if I leave the laptop on, the speed increases and I am able to
browse.

Can anyone help.

many thanks

David Lawn









Do you have an Intel 2200bg or 2915abg? If so, expect those problems as long as you keep that card.






Why? I have the 2915abg in my I9300 and it works flawlessly. Rather than just making broad statements, could you back them up with facts?







Sure -- but you could scan any of the forums on wireless networking to see lots of problems with the Intel cards.

1) The Transmit Power setting is supposed (per Intel documentation) to be at maximum by default. It is not. In fact, you can set it to maximum, but whenever the card is re-started (startup, log in, etc.), the transmit power drops to about 40%. Note that the setting in the cards advanced properties is still set to whatever you set it. The card just ignors the setting until you reset it. If you want to verify this, get Net Stumbler or some such, monitor the connection when you change the Transmit Power setting.

2) The cards transmit speed varies wildly and eventually drops to 1mbps. At that setting, the card ceases to communicate. Disabling then re-enabling the card 'fixes' this until it drops again.






Old drivers, long fixed.






No. Not fixed in the current drivers either.




Really.  Seems to work fine on all three in  my house.






I'm glad it works for you.



I think it works well for virtually everyone. If it was a real problem, there would be many, many people here complaining about it.




Lots of people do have problems with them:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12904785~start=0 





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