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    HDX16 Owners: Is your Wifi "N" slow?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by oldcrank, Oct 29, 2008.

  1. oldcrank

    oldcrank Notebook Geek

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    I posted previously about this, but gave the OP a lame, non-descriptive title, so maybe not many of you read it. Anyway, rather than repeating the problem:

    Read it here

    Anyway, as I said in the other post, all 3 of my other HP laptops--2 w/4965AGN, one w/Broadcom--all reach 270 Mbps no problem. Besides the troubleshooting steps I took in the other post, today I just basically stuck the laptop right next to the router--still no change in the speed.

    A dual-band "N" card operating on the 5GHz band should be reaching 270 Mbps, am I right? (I think it must be, since the other 3 lappies are doing it.)

    I'm just trying to get a consensus here, w/you other HDX16 owners: is your Wifi also maxing at 135Mbps? If so, do we have a problem that we should bring to HP's attention, perhaps en masse? I.e., you cheap *****, why didn't you put in the 5300? I would have paid an extra $10 for the good wireless card, wouldn't you?

    Anyway, am I the only one having the problem, or is this universal? If everyone is having this problem, what should we do about it?
     
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  2. sendmarksmail

    sendmarksmail Notebook Evangelist

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    Posted on your thread about my 5100 AGN.
     
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