Intel 4965 & Linksys G Router

I'm looking at upgrading my wireless network in phases. I noticed that Intel has a new draft-N card (4965). If I were to upgrade the card in my laptop and continue to use my old router (WRT54GS), would I experience in boosts in speed? I'm really not interested in coverage, just higher bandwidth for file transfers and such. My current setup I average 22-25 Mbps (Intel 3945 & WRT54GS). Will just adding the Intel 4965 improve things? Thanks.

 

You will need draft N on both wireless router and card to get faster transfer rates.

 

Thanks. I'm just going to wait until the N standard is finalized before I make any purchases then.

 

You're welcome, and I think you are making a wise choice to wait.

 

Btw you might not get much of an increase in speed as the transfer speed is limited by the hard drive most of the time and not the router and wireless card.

 

This is entirely untrue. Modern desktop hard drives can easily sustain a transfer rate of 30 (minimum) to 60 (maximum) megabytes per second. The 11G standard has a theoretical maximum transfer rate, under the best possible conditions, of 54 megabits per second, which is about 7 megabytes per second. While this is still much faster than the average internet transfer, it was still about half the speed of the very common and relatively old 100 megabit, or 12.5 megabyte, per second wired ethernet.

The 11n standard I believe has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 247 megabits per second, which becomes around 31 megabytes per second, which is about the minimum rate of a modern hard drive's sustained transfer speed. Much faster, and only beaten by wired gigabit ethernet, 1000 megabits per second, equalling 125 megabytes per second. I can't think of any (single) hard drive that has a sustained transfer rate of this speed.

I think you'll be waiting until about 2009.

 

I'm having a problem with my Intel N card and router. I recently upgraded my laptop with the new Intel 4965AGN wireless card, and previously already owned a Linksys WRT150N Draft N router. With the original Dell Wireless 802.11g wireless card that came with the laptop, I was getting consistently around 4Mbps, but since I installed the Intel N card, I've been getting around 800-900kbps. Anyone have any suggestions? I bought the card new from e bay.

 

You might be better off making your own thread when looking for tech support, to get people to answer faster.

 

11n drivers are not very stable. And most only play with there own MFG counter parts. The only thing you can do is make sure you have the latest drivers.

 

I'm soooo stupid. Been working with/building computers for 17 years now, and I forgot the cardinal rule of new hardware. ALWAYS GET LATEST DRIVERS. Thanks blue, you kicked me back to reality.

Anyways, I can officially confirm that Linksys WRT150N + Intel Wireless 4965AGN = 8+Mbps!! Just make sure you get those latest drivers.