I am famous! M5N + Intel 2200BG

Somehow my post has been linked to this site.

http://www.all-about-bluetooth.co.uk/16/wireless777.html

go to "News in Brief" 3rd item down.

I am just a poor frustrated customer trying to sort out a problem with ASUS and Intel who have not been forthcoming with an answer.

Hardly newsworthy stuff.

Is this an isolated problem?

Come on Asus M5N owners (and other centrino - intel 2200BG card users) rally together and post your results.

Ping to Access Point Results

M5N/Intel 2200BG..AC mode.....Battery Mode

"auto"......................1ms.........14ms(+ unstable connection)

"manual"..................1ms.........1ms

 

It may just be a bug with the Intel 2200bg cards...
although, I don't notice any connection drops and the connection is usually stable and strong with my M6Ne and 2200bg card

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, ASUS Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

What about your actual ping times in those four modes? Despitemy connection dropping out every 10 mins Intel proset reported good signal. This only happened in battery mode with "auto" power configuration.
Even with my Intel 21003B I found an improvementin ping times from 5 to 2ms by changing power management from "auto" to "manual" in battery mode. Thanks for your observations

 

I'm not sure from this thread what the issue is, but it might be helpful to know that there is a new Intel 2200BG driver/software release as of September 2004.......
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=1637


...........Peter

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ASUS M6BNe - My reviews:
http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5722
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=426053#post426053
1.7GB Dothan w/AS5, 15.4" WXGA, ATI 9700/64MB
1024MB Corsair, 60GB 7,200rpm, DVD+/-R/RW
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg, WinXP Pro SP2
3 yr warranty, 1 yr no bad pixel policy from Powernotebooks.com

 

Thanks pstrisik,
This includes a new driver and an updated version of Intel Proset.
tried that driver, it improves the percentage missed beacons from 30% to 0% but does nothing for the poor pings and unstable connection under "auto" and battery mode. Also to note is the -ve RSSI value a bug that seems to have persisted with the new and old driver driver. It is of interest that Sept driver is not on the download area for Asus M5N. Are Asus going to recommened it?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by ocular
It is of interest that Sept driver is not on the download area for Asus M5N. Are Asus going to recommened it?
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Don't know. There might be some delay in Asus' posting it or including it with new shipments. Then again, they might not be motivated if they don't see issues to begin with.


...........Peter

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ASUS M6BNe - My reviews:
http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5722
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=426053#post426053
1.7GB Dothan w/AS5, 15.4" WXGA, ATI 9700/64MB
1024MB Corsair, 60GB 7,200rpm, DVD+/-R/RW
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg, WinXP Pro SP2
3 yr warranty, 1 yr no bad pixel policy from Powernotebooks.com

 

ocular
instead of it being an issue with the M5N, perhaps maybe just the card?
Maybe you should try putting the Intel 2200 card in one of your other notebooks and see if you get the same ping

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, ASUS Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

I've been getting terrible performance on my home network, and finally discovered that the AP is putting huge delays on packets on its wired ethernet port. Pinging from the wired side got response times of 1ms, 1000ms, 1ms, 1000ms, ... so something was definitely flaked out there. Cycling power on the AP (Netgear WG602v1, latest firmware 1.7.15) has temporarily fixed this.

I also noticed my missed AP beacons stat was at 55% or so, but installing the new Proset stuff seems to have fixed that, it's now at 0%.

old: Sony PCG-GR300P 1.13GHz PIII-M, 512MB
new: Asus M6Ne 2.00GHz P-M, 2GB