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    Studio 15 WLAN 1510n issue

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Ar Lex, Sep 4, 2008.

  1. Ar Lex

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    I have the Studio S15 w/ 1510n running Vista connected to my Linksys WRT54G AP, but the speed seems to be much slower than other conventional 802.11g connection. Compare to my desktop with Belkin USB WiFi-G connected to the same AP in XP environment, I found the speed in XP is 600KB/s but S15(Vista) only gets 290KB/s when downloading the same file from Microsoft. The H/W configuration in my desktop is much lower than the S15(AMD 3800+ only), I just wonder if it is driver problem or Vista issue. And Dell CS claims that it could not be fixed :mad:
     
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    How far away from the access point is the notebook compared to the desktop?
     
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    The S15 is sitting next to the AP, and the desktop is 10 feets away from the AP...
     
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    It is actually probably too close to the AP then. There is a graph that shows throughput by distance and being too close is as bad as being too far.
     
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    Just checked it out the problem is not too close to the AP, but the 1510n. I have tried using a Belkin WiFi USB stick and disabling the onboard 1510n, downloading XP sp3 from MS.com, roughly 3 folds faster than the 1510n's; with this test running 5 times obtaining the same result. Dell's CS just replace another 1510n chips but no good at all, probably chipset design or driver issues. So wondering if someone could do the similar test to confirm. Thx.
     
    Ar Lex, Sep 8, 2008
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