N-draft wireless with dell

Will the N-draft wireless option with dell laptops work with an old wireless router or will i have to buy a new one?

 

Only if the old wireless router is N capable...but I doubt it. Most of these "old" ones are a/b/g.

 

Is it possible that dells wireless option is a/b/g/n??? Im going to check the website

 

have to buy a new n router its not backwards compatiable with a/b/g

 

The draft n card is backwards compatible with a/g, not really sure about b. the drivers page for the draft n card indicates that it is compatible.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...=1&vercnt=2&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=171897

 

Yea i was looking at that. This is from the dell website:
Get Hyper Connected!
"HyperConnect with the Inspiron E1705 and next generation Wi-Fi and enjoy high-resolution photo transfers, high-definition video or audio streaming, online gaming and more without sacrificing speed.
Get the Optional Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n Wireless Mini-Card -- plus Draft 11n routers with Intensi-fiTM technology -- and go up to 5 times faster4 and get twice the range5 of 802.11g6
Get nearly 25% more range5 and go up to 50% faster4 with your current 802.11g router! "

 

B/G are the same, except for speeds, so B will work.

 

Hi Guys,

My first time posting. Long time reader. I've been looking at which laptop to get for about a year now.. and I finally settled on a xps 1210. Fully LOADED with the 3rd fastest parts you can get on this side of the country.

Anyhow, I got it at a wonderful deal... I was going to wait for the A8Js, but I chose to just go with the dell instead, because price-wise, I was getting better deal with dell, it's smaller... and the battery life of the A8Js just killed the deal for me.

I now await for my m1210.

I got the Dell Wireless 1500, and after further inspection, found out it was based on the broadcom Intensi-FI chipset

http://www.broadcom.com/products/intensi-fi.php

I don't know which chip exactly, but if anyone knew, it would be greatly appreciated.

Anyhow, the reason why I went with the 1500 instead of the Intel wireless card was because the 1500 was going at a cheaper price... So why not?

My question:

Can anyone recommend a Pre-N router that the broadcom works very well with at Pre-N connection? I know belkins don't work too well, but oh well.

Off topic, what I'm not happy about with the m1210...

-no dock station connection
-no giganet connection
-wish it was a 7600/7700 instead of a 7400 GPU
-VGA connection, instead of DVI

take care

 

The N just means Not ready yet, and dell got plenty of them on stock. they need to get rid of them. They tried to push one on me for half the original price.

 

First - I just purchased a new dell e1405 with the Dell 1500 802.11n wireless chip. The wireless card connects to my "N" Router (which was given to me from Belkin to test, FREE) at 270 mbps instead of the standard 54 mbps. And I can tell a major difference from my 802.11g laptop from the new 802.11n laptop. So this is definitely a PLUS.

Second - Of course the dell 1500 wireless chipset is backwards compatible. It can connect to any wireless network out there whether it be 802.11a/b/g/n. This is hard coded into the adapter. It will simply change its frequency from 40 mhz to 20 mhz when it comes across a signal which is not 802.11n. So therefore you don't HAVE to own a Pre-N or "N" router in order to use its wireless.

Third - To me the idea and protocol is justified, so far I have only heard of one minor flaw with the design of 802.11n and that would be the interoperability between the N chipsets, (a manufacturing problem). So if Dell is giving them away at a lower price, get one because even if N fails, the adapter can still be switched to accept 802.11g.

802.11 -
A+G = compatible
B+G = compatible
A+N = compatible
A+B = NOT compatible (802.11a channels will not work around 802.11b)

 

I use the Netgear WNR834B, pay attention to the last character of the model number. Netgear has three different Draft N routers and the one that ends in "B" is the one made with the Broadcom chipset and uses Intensifi. I know the other draft N WNR834M uses the Marvell Topdog. Some one please correct me if I'm wrong.

I have not had any problems connecting to my G routers, but the connection to my Netgear router is awesome and makes a difference when transfering files to and from my NAS or just plain old surfing and download of files.