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    Centrino performance

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by phantomlynx, Apr 2, 2005.

  1. phantomlynx

    phantomlynx Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have just bought the Acer Aspire 1693, having tried a couple of Sony fs115b's. All of them seem to have poor performance using the inbuilt Centrino wifi chip. If I plug in a pc card then they are fine. Other older machines using pc cards have great signal so it isn't a network issue, although , if I am close tot he router it isn't an issue either.

    Has anyone else notice this issue? [?] Have Intel been conning us all?

    I have tried adjusting the power settings on the DeviceManager and that does seem to have improved it.
     
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    george_l Notebook Consultant

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    Most of the Soho routers comes with either Atheros or prism chipset , with some kind of special features like SuperG(Mbps) which is not fully compabtible with intel wifi chipset
    that might be one of the reason i guess

    How ever i have tried Ad-hoc connection using two centrino wifi and it did well

     
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