wireless card problems

I recently bought an x201 with the 6200 wireless card option, and the speed of the card seems exceedingly slow; downloads will randomly hang, and sometime pages will just stop loading half-way through. When I plug the computer into the wireless router with an ethernet cable, however, I notice an immediate increase in speed, so I doubt the router is at fault. I've also checked, and confirmed, that I have the most recent driver for the wireless card.

At the same time, both the lenovo wireless tool, and the windows wireless tool tell me that my wireless card has a very strong connection to the router (and I'm sitting right next to it), and tell me that the card is functioning properly (I ran diagnostic tests with the thinkvantage tools).

Does anyone know why this might be the case? Is there some compatibility issue with the wireless card and windows 7 64 bit? Could the fact that I have an SSD (which means windows 7 automatically changes some settings, like disabling prefetch and superfetch) influence the speed of my wireless? Or is it possible I was just given a faulty wireless card?

 

I'm running the intel 6200 on Win7 64-bit without any issues - did you try updating the drivers? I don't think the SSD should be causing any problems.

 

Hmm I have 6100 but also SSD and Win7 Pro 64 and it works fine. I would try using different (not necessarily newest) drivers. Maybe to start with just try Windows default drivers. Sometimes those work well.