HP Pavilion dv5000 / dv5020us Broadcom WLAN / Wi-Fi Card Issues

I have a HP dv5020 labeled HP Pavilion dv5000 on the lcd that seems to have a slow wireless card. I am running the latest XP.

I first noticed the problem when I had the laptop in the same room with a desktop which is running wirelessly as well.

The laptop was accessing sites much slower than the desktop. I used www.speakeasy.net/speedtest to test both of the connections. The desktop was twice as fast and they are both G cards. I then took the laptop much closer to the router and ran the same network test. Again the laptop ran 1/2 as fast. So I then plugged in the laptop to the router via an ethernet cable and it ran fine, just a little faster than the wireless desktop.

I tried updating my WLAN driver from HP and that didn't help. Next, I bought an external Hawking Wireless USB G card (awesome device btw) and I was then running just as fast if not faser than the wireless desktop according the same speed test.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem. My workaround is fine but it is a little frustrating to have a usb network card protruding from my laptop.

Thanks!
-Shelton / Nashville

 

replace the card with a new one. might be faulty.