Intel 6230 N Performance

Just wondering how your wireless N connections are. Mine sucks. D-Link Dir-655 router, Intel 6200=300mbps, 6230=26-81mbps. Tried 20 and 40htz. Distance of 5 feet.

 

Only using 54g connection, its pretty good here, max power saver and still maximum speed of the connection.

 

I would be doing great if I was on G. Hoping some others will chime in with an N connection. Maybe my card sucks.

 

I have the 6250 (the same base 6200 WiFi as yours) and my wireless-n performance is great. I have my router (TrendNet TEW639GR) on the 1st floor, and I can still get 70% or so signal strength on the 3rd floor.

 

It's almost as fast as wired (verizon fios), so I guess it's good.

 

Well, Dell is going to replace it along with the palm rest.

 

What happened to your palmrest? I wanted a new one for my xps14 and they wanted to charge me 200 bucks for it ;<

 

It wasnt installed correctly so it has a ridge bent into it near the power button. I pushed down on the ridge and it snapped it, breaking the tab that holds it down. I will lose the win7 and i5 stickers.

 

From my previous post:

Had an Intel 6200 Wireless N wifi card installed in my L501X initially. I wanted bluetooth so I installed a Intel 6230 Wireless N with Bluetooth wifi card. The 6200 was very fast on both 2.4 and 5.2 GHZ networks with my WNDR3700. The 6230 is very slow on the 2.4 GHZ (comparable to a modem if it is even working). On 5.2 GHZ it is a little faster, but nothing like the 6200. I am thinking being that it is new the driver might be having issues.

I thought updating the firmware on the router corrected the problem, but I was mistaken. On 2.4 GHZ performance stinks. Hope a new driver is released to correct whatever the problem might be.

 

Im sending it back for a refund. I dont have time to ship it for repairs. Done with dell....The 6230 mini card sucks!

 

No problems with the 6230 in mine.

I think I'd be more inclined to blame Dell QC than the 6230 card. For all you know, they forgot to hook the antenna leads to the card or something. In any case, the palm rest being installed badly should have been caught by dell QC.

 

Have you already tried this?
Drivers and Downloads

 

Where did you purchase your card from? Its highly possibly that it is a counterfit card.

 

It's the card, 6200 is great, 6230 aweful. Yes. both antennas are connected, white=1, black=2.

 

You would have to ask Dell that question. Came installed.

 

Little more info? Connection speed? Router? B. G, or N?

 

Have you checked if cables are all connected?
Someone has received his XPS with some cable not connected

http://forum.notebookreview.com/7271314-post1136.html

 

I am using the drivers directly from Intel.

 

Buffalo Airstation WHR-HP-G300N Wireless Mode N at 40Mhz and current connection speed is 260Mbps about 40' and 2 rooms away from the wireless router.

 

Have you verified that the WLAN card driver configured to use the full 40MHz bandwidth when connecting to G networks. IIRC, the Intel driver defaults to the "neighbor-friendly" 20MHz only.

 

I had problems with my intel 6230 on my dell as well. I got really poor throughput, only can download or upload at 100 KB/s on a single stream with 50% packet loss.

I tried using version 14.0.0.0 and the dell version 14.0.1.2 which both result the same.

So I opened her up, and check if card is installed corrected, according to the manual, white main is port 1 and black x on port 2 is connected as expected.
So, what the hell I switched it and test. So much better not perfect, only 4% packet loss.

 

I can chime in that my 6230 has god awful WIFI performance on 2.4ghz. 5.2ghz performance is decent. I'm pretty disappointed, Intel products are usually a pretty safe bet on quality.

 

Mine works great and is always connected between 270-300Mbps to a dedicated 5GHz band wireless N access point. I am using the latest driver from the Dell site.

Scott-