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    DV5T's 5100AGN redeems itself....for me atleast

    Discussion in 'HP' started by paradigm, Dec 31, 2009.

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    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    I am very happy today, for the 1st time in 16 months of buying the DV5T (and subsequently the 5100 AGN) and a Belkin N1 (aka F5D8231-4 v4), i am able to achieve 162 to 216Mbps on the same settings that got me a barely 54Mbps (till 06 minutes ago)

    Steps taken

    (apart from cussing at the WIFI alliance and Belkin techs not to mention the Intel teams (looking after their WIFI products) for so long)

    latest Driver set from Intel for the 5100AGN
    Firmware Version F5D8231-4_WW_4.00.16 (randomly checked 05 minutes ago and there was an update for the N1....)
    VHP 32

    (PS this is all happening in
    a Mixed G and N enviourment....(iphone AOD 150, and the Dv5T)
    running WPA2-PSK AES (yup...intel....... what ya gonna saw now....the 5100 AGN can achieve over 54Mbps in a AES WPA2 encrypted network)
    a Cordless phone sitting not 2 feet from the router
    surrounded by a adsl modem at one side, and the (NAS) WMU 6500FS from Airlive on the other
    the laptops being on the 1st story vs all this stuff on the ground floor
     
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    by the way the following figures are from Everest....

    i have not assesed the updated speeds by any objective tests

    but
    my browsing the (NAS...i know it's not proper but it's nice in it's quaint way) from Airlive (WMU6500FS....which was a nightmare) is as fast as my wife's AOD 150's Atheros G chip
    I am able to download the ISO for WIn7 (MS...beta) in 9 minutes 18sec vs 22+ minutes
     
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