Intel 4965AGN vs Wifi Link 5300

seems like the 5300 has some great specs over the 4965. Anyone else own the 5300 and care to comment. These are both PCie mini card?

 

Yes, the 5300 is the top-of-the-line wifi card. From what I've read, so far,
it has 6 antennas, vs. 5 antennas for the 4965. Throughput is supposed
to be higher, also.

I was somewhat disappointed to find that my new dv5t will have the
cheaper 5100 card, as most other laptops. The only units I've seen that
have the 5300 are Sager/Clevo and Compal.

Rob

 

well might be pointless for me. I just found out the Acer Aspire 8920 has the ABG version which only has two wires???????????

ack

 

well whats your situation? it wouldn't be pointless since N routers are backward compatible with A/B/G signals but you just won't be able to utilize the 4965 or the 5300 cards max capabilities

 

I am surprised they would hobble the lower end model like that. I guess I will do a usb or pcmcia card because I do have an N router and like to stream movies to my ps3

 

The 4965 will outperform the 5300. One reason being, no 3X3 AP's available yet.

 

not even the DIR-855 by D-Link

 

You mean the the one that was supposed to be released in March but still isn't in stores? Wonder if/when we'll ever see it available.

 

They are both internal PCIe minicards.

 

I have a DIR-855, two of them infact

 

Where did you get them? How long have you had them? How's the performance?

 

Just got them last week. I purchase one of the first ones back in January and discovered the wiring issue that was covered in the press ( my 15 minutes of fame) I just received two last week from D-Link direct as an exchange and compensation for waiting so long.

Speed wise, MAJOR improvement over first version especially with the new firmware. Havent had an issue since installed. However.........there appears to be a bug possibly in the FW with voip. Now your mileage may vary but no matter what I do I cannot get my voip to work. Oddly enough if I go back to the old router, it works.

So overall, they did a great job and it was worth the wait. Should be in retail channels in a month or two I think

Wanna buy one

 

Cool, thanks for the info. I would like to buy one but if VOIP isn't working, that's a show stopper for me.

 

Both the DIR-855 and WRT610N are unavailable in canada.

Very annoying.

 

I'm sorry you are terribly wrong , both the 5300 & 4965 needs only 3 antenna's connected , its just that 5300 is MIMO 3x3 , there's no logic in bringing 6 antenna's to such a small laptop btw.
read more on Intel PDF :
http://download.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/319982.pdf

 

wrong , belkin N1 supports 3x3 , and more coming since marvell released their chips to vendors on 2Q, we should see more 3x3 routers with atheros chipset as well

 

I second Nir, furthermore MIMO is independent from the any software application, is an RF thing.

 

Yeah, 3X3 routers are coming, the makret just isn't saturated with them yet.

 

the voip issue might be exclusive to me and I am still trying to track it down

 

Cool, any chance you'll do a review on it?

 

planning to try and put one together this weekend

 

Thanks. That'll be some good info.

 

FYI, I have just installed my DIR-855 and using it with two laptops.
My VaioTZ has Intel 4965AGN and connects to the router at 300Mbps reliably every time.
My newer laptop is a Vaio Z with Wifi Link 5100 and it connects at only 150Mbps, no matter what i have tried. sometimes even drops to 135Mbps even when psitioned 2-3meters from the router and no walls.

I don't know if its caused by immature direvers\router fw or just the older 4965AGN is so much better..strange

 

That's to be expected. Everything I've read indicates the 5100 is in fact inferior to the 4965. The 5300 is the only true upgrade from a 4965

 

Can anyone comment on the range of the 5300? My laptop hasn't come in yet to test this out.

 

can one simply just exchange a 4965 with a 5300? it's the same slot and everything right?

 

Well I dunno about others but the 5100 works flawlessy in my mom's dv5t...HUGE improvement in my eyes over whatever is in my mom's desktop...

 

Yes^^^, and thread bump which is the better of the two to buy?

 

^^^ Same here