Dell Wifi Divers?

Hi I have the Standard wifi adapter that comes with the dell! are there any new drivers that will boost the signal to 5 bars? the router is only upstairs!!

 

Just because it's "only upstairs" really means nothing. There could be interference from other devices not only in your home, but from surrounding homes.

In my livingroom with my router 10 feet away from me, I rarely see higher than an 86% signal.

 

Yeh but my little linksys box got 100% all the time! and that was only a B adapter im pretty dure these r G?

 

Check dell's website. They have the release dates on their site.

 

Different equipment will yield different results.

I'm willing to bet I could put my m1210 and my m1330 side by side and they'll both have different signal strengths on them.

If you're only concerned about having full bars, you're wasting your time. Unless your network performance is degraded, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Well when im playing BF2 the ouse keeps moving without me touching it! now i would call this a internet problem, but im begiining to think its my 512mb ram lol!

 

Do you have a wired or wireless mouse? I had a similar problem on a previous laptop where the mouse would move on it's own and it was actually the fault of my wireless mouse.

 

Lol for now its the laptop scroller =) but it never used to do it, when i first got my latop? only recently has it started!

 

You might want to call Dell and see what they can do about it.

 

Drivers have nothing to do with signal strength.

 

I heard they have given people better results!

 

If the problem is coming when your using your touchpad then you have to see if you have the scrolling feature turned off... Else you couldv very well be activating that... If it is a wireless mouse sounds like it is low on battery power...

About the WiFi drivers... Go to Dell's website and try different versions of the ones posted. Newer drivers can bring improvements or they can worsen it. Newer drivers can also have no effect. It all depends on what changed from one version to the next. They don't always increase range and/or performance. There is a limit to what any hardware is capable of.

As has already been mentioned, try to see if you can isolate a source of interference. As just because a card says it has 100% strength doesn't mean it actually does have that kind of strength. I remember my Belkin Pre-N card I previously owned. It would claim to have 100% strength on networks that could barely be detected as I was so far on the edge of the range curve. I knew this because the reported speeds to these networks would be in the 1Mbps range instead of the 54Mbps range that 100% connections yeild. But if I took that card at face value I'd think it was doing a job that seemed impossible on other cards. In reality they just weren't reported the right strength.

 

Since this has to do about wifi, does anyone know if there is drivers for the wifi Catcher?

I did a fresh vista reinstall, but now the wifi finder is not working.

 

It depends on how much material the signal has to go through. I can sit in the dining room and only get about 50% signal. This puts about 3 thick walls and a brick chimney in between my router and laptop. Also unless you have some unearthly internet connection, or are going to be transferring large files in between computers, you really don't need the 56Mb/s speed.

 

ummm.... wait.... so let me get this straught... you are saying the internet is causing your mouse to move because you are not getting a high enough wireless signal? or is it because you don't have enough ram to buffer your x/y cordinates that your mouse is giving the computer? I am confused.