Dell's Wi-Fi Cards?

Does anyone have experience with Dell's Wi-Fi cards? I'm looking at getting the E1705 with Dell's Wireless G card, but I don't know how good Dell's wireless cards are. I don't want to get the Intel Wireless card because I don't need Wi-Fi "A".

 

I think the Dells Wi-fi cards are fine but looking on the Dell Community forums I noticed lots of people seem to have trouble with the Dell brand wireless. Go figure.

 

Then I take it Dell's Wi-Fi cards are crappy Man, I was really hoping they'd be O.K.

 

Oh gosh - I ordered my E1705 with Dell's Wi-Fi card. If it doesn't work right, I'm going to be kicking myself for not getting the Intel Wi-Fi card.

 

I've heard the same thing about the 2200 which I have,

 

I have the Dell 1390 in my E1705 and I was very very frustrated at first with it.

Out of the box it works very poor, but that's because some things are off by default. I enabled a couple of things in the hardware settings like afterburner (you can do this in your router too!) and XPress Technology. Also check out some of the power settings because somtimes your cards antenna runs at a lower setting to conserve power.

Couple that with some hacked firmware for my linksys wrt54gs and I get 54Mbps everywhere in my house.

 

Well, that doesn't sound so bad - hopefully the one I get won't be a dud.

 

I have a Dell Wi-Fi and it's fine. I was just saying that on the Community forums there are a lot of posts about trouble with the Wi-Fi cards. I would probably attribute this to lack of knowledge (noobs) as opposed to defective product

 

I have had no problems with dell wi-fi card

 

I have now had a E1705 for a week, and have had flakey connectivity using the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 the whole time. I also have an IBM T40 from work and it is rock solid. The E1705 connects with 'a' and 'g', while the T40 connects only with 'a'. E1705 will connect, then periodically drop the signal. Also it seems to be much more finicky as to where it will pick up a signal. The Dell wants to default to 'g'. Is 'a' more stable, and that is why the IBM has a more robust connection, or is the old big blue just a better unit?
To answer the questions: The wireless is turned on, and power saving is turned off. What else can I do? BTW, I am a laptop technical 'noob', so please do not assume that I have done the 'obvious'.

 

even though you may not need an A signal the Intel might have better signal quality overall.. if not you can always buy a 2915 from intel but the 2915 and the 3945 i think theres not much of a price difference.

 

Becareful, 3945 and 2915 might have different interfaces. Having said that, I have 2 Dell wifi mini pci (one from Broadcom and one is Intel 2100) cards. They all run fine in my laptops.