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    Wireless-N (4965N) card keeps disconnecting.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by pragun, Sep 3, 2007.

  1. pragun

    pragun Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey, it seems as if the Wifi-N card on my laptop keeps disconnecting from my router at home. The symbol says connected but sometimes I randomly get cannot find server messages in firefox (for websites like google.com). I had this issue with my work-issued latitude a while back as well, but i wasn't anticipating it on my 1520. it never happened on my old presario 2500. ideas?
     
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    You may be having router/wireless card communication issues. What kind of router do you have?
     
    vespoli, Sep 3, 2007
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  3. pragun

    pragun Notebook Evangelist

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    linksys. not sure about the model. ill check it if needed.
     
    pragun, Sep 3, 2007
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    What standard is the router? As N still isn't ratified last time I checked so you can have some nasty interoperability issues still...
     
    frazell, Sep 3, 2007
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    It's still not ratified, and this is most likely the issue.
     
    Reezin14, Sep 3, 2007
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  6. pragun

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    its an 11mbps router. its not N.
     
    pragun, Sep 3, 2007
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    Do you have any encryption enabled?
     
    DoubleBlack, Sep 3, 2007
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    nope no encryption
     
    pragun, Sep 3, 2007
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    Dell released a new driver for the Intel ABGN card used in the M1330 around the 8-Aug. It fixed some similar problems for me.
     
    Nalada, Sep 3, 2007
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