Intel 6300N vs Dell 1520 wireless

Hi guys,

I'm getting a lot lower range on my 6300N compared to the Dell card. Driver installed on the 6300N is the one from the Intel website with no additional software (tried, no difference). In my bedroom upstairs which is around 15 or so meters away from my router through quite a few walls, I get 116mbps with the Dell card. With the 6300N I'm struggling to get 54mbps, usually 36, dropping down to the 20s quite often. I've already got two different replacements of 6300N (3 cards all up) so I'm pretty sure there's no issue with the card itself. Anyone else have similar issues?

 

I had this issue when I went from my 5300 to the 6300 - I can't recall the reason, though I think it was because I had fixed my access point to either only 20mhz or 40mhz. Once I set it to auto or both, the new 6300 went back up to full speed.

Intel have just released newer drivers this week, 13.4(?) so I'm going to try these tonight. I went from the 5300 to the 6300 because I was getting dropped connections when doing heavy downloading, especially with non-HTTP traffic. The 6300 does it far far less, but enough to still annoy, but it shares the same driver as the 5300 so I'm hoping these later ones finally sort the problem.

 

Thanks for that. I've never had any connection stability issues, just poor speed. The new drivers seem to have fixed it. I actually checked for new drivers a lot before I posted this. Just my luck that it comes out two days after.