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    Wireless Card - 4965AGN

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by jl1989, May 17, 2008.

  1. jl1989

    jl1989 Notebook Evangelist

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    I read on the network/wiresles forums that to achieve wirelessN speeds, you must have all 3 antennas attached. if you only have two antennas attached, you'll only be at G speeds.

    maybe i'm being picky but I want to be able to have wireless N speeeds. i opened up my service cover and only two antennas are there. is there a reason for why theres one missing....

    i'm on techsupport asking right now and they told me to hold and then hung up on me... cool :/
     
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    Frag Notebook Consultant

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    I use wireless N with only two wires attached. Not sure what the third wire is for. I have found that you need to run the wireless thru windows instead of the intel software as the intel software will only connect in A or G mode. Not sure why that is but if anyone knows why let me know.
     
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    jl1989 Notebook Evangelist

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    actually i'm looking back at the post in the other forum and lookin at my card.. i think i have the third wire there except it doesn't come connected.
     
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    it'd be really nice if people would specify which product they're talking about...

    and before you say the 4965AGN card, i'm talking about which LAPTOP you have...
     
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    lol oh the m15x
     
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    on every internal picture I've ever seen of the m15x, the 4965AGN card has had three connectors consistently connected to three antenna wires, with a fourth (usually blue) that isn't connected to anything.

    This is consistent even with my m15x. this is normal. even so, I don't see why N-mode WOULDN'T work with only two connections, maybe not as well as intended, but still probably work. as for "full speed wireless N", you'll never see full speed on wireless N.

    Full speed Wireless N is aproximately 500MBps, No drive, or game, or array could ever need that much bandwidth, nor utilize it. you'd need a pretty extensive RAID array to pull that much data per second off of harddrives to fully utilize the connection, not to mention, the hardware to make it go. (gigabit lan backbone, wireless N Access Point, and an endpoint that would make full usage of the throughput, e.g. a video editing app or something)

    if you were streaming raw frames, now there would be a need to have it. As it stands, 802.11b is still faster than most internet connections, and I havn't met another person like me... which is to say, someone that uses their network for more than just internet.

    bottom line, don't worry about it. you probably won't see a big performance increase between wireless G, and wireless N.
     
    Mystik, May 18, 2008
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