ASUS G50VT-X1 wifi card not good?

I moved to a new place and the router is at the other side of the house. My connection is at about 30mbps to 1mbps, and most of time it's at 10mbps. Very slow when viewing youtube most of the time, and network is at a haul whn it becomes 1mbps. The landlord has a Dell laptop and he can connect 22mbps at the same spot I use the notebook. I wonder if it's the built-in network card on Asus isn't that good. Is it 802.11g or n for this model? THe router is 802.11n. If I move the notebook very close, it would become 54mbps.

I wonde if there are better wireless card I can buy to improve the connection? What is the usual speed of the USB type? I thought they're usually slower. How about PC card ones?

Thanks for the help,

 

I'm pretty sure that card is an intel 4965AGN model, or a 5100 which are both 802.11n. In this thread someone says their G50Vt came with an atheros card, I'm not sure which is in the X1: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/371830-asus-g50vt-wireless-reception.html

Check in device manager to see which card you have and then just look up its specs.

Either way check out the g50 disassembly guide and you can see the location of the wifi card, it's quite easy to replace: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/318551-asus-g50-notebook-disassembly-guide.html

 

thanks for the help. It's Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN.

 

The 5100 uses two antennas, while the 5300 uses 3. Perhaps you'd have better reception with a 3-antenna adapter? They go for ~$15 on eBay.

 

Thanks for the tip. I wll search for 5300. It seems a small price to explore. BTW, are the specs in your signature on G50vt-X1, the same one as mine. You've modified it a lot. Do you have articles on how you did all these somewhere on web? Thanks!

 

I upgraded to the 5300 hoping for better reception, but I didn't really notice a difference at first, at least with wireless G networks. Now that my school's upgraded to N, it's even harder to tell, but I do know I get a more constant signal now, even if it isn't much stronger on the higher end.

I should really write up what I did, perhaps that will be a project for next week. But yeah, it's been a lot of fun and Asus makes a durable and tough machine. This computer's been through everything.

 

x2, that should fix the problem.