WRT300n (600n?) INtel wifi 4965 5100 5300 ENABLE N!

After a ton of looking, tweaking and a strong desire to NOT have to buy a dual band router. Here's my fix for 130mbits connection. It fluctuates between 54-130 but seems to stay in the upper range.

In your router config utility

Under Basic Wireless Settings
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Network mode = mixed
radio band = wide 40mhz
wide channel = 9
standard channel = 11

Under Wireless Security
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Mode = Wpa2 Personal
Encryption = Tkip or Aes

Under Advanced Wireless Settings
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ap = disabled
frame burst = disabled
-leave everything on auto except for
beacon interval = 50
dtim =1
fragmentation = 2304
rts threshold = 2304

ON THE LAPTOP / DESKTOP CLIENT SIDE
-Make sure you connect to your router using wpa2 AES, even though you can connect with tkip it HAS to be aes ( i missed this).

btw all my other laptops, devices, iphones, etc are connecting great on G, my n card is at 130mbits.

I did a quick test and downloading from one of my hard drives to my laptop was twice as fast, took 3 mins instead of 6.

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Why satisfied with 130Mbps? I have WRT310N and AFAIK it is also not a dual-band wireless router. With correct settings, I could get up to 270Mbps connections.

My notebooks using Intel 4965, Intel 5100 and Dell 1510. All using the latest driver available.

With setting the Radio Band Wide - 40MHz Channel, I can get 270Mbps connections with 5100 & 1510, but still 130Mbps for 4965. I think this is due to 4965 can only do 40MHz channel at 5GHz band.

 

I ended up having problems streaming video to some of the other devices in the house. In order for all my other devices to work properly I had to set it all to auto, leave frame burst off and leave it on wpa2 aes/tkip (pretty much the default settings). So the key is to use wpa2/aes to get 130mbits.

I have the latest firmware and couldn't get it to connect at 270mbits. On a fluke it read 450mbits (the 5300 n is speced for that). The 310N might have had some improvements?

My devices include:
Ibm t43p
dell d400
hp wireless printer
iphone

 

The settings in my WRT310N:
Network Mode: Mixed
Radio Band: Wide - 40MHz
Security Mode: WPA2 Personal
Encryption: AES
I use wireless MAC filter, and I leave the Advanced Wireless Settings all default (Frame Burst is enabled by default).

My wireless devices:
Dell Studio 17 (Dell 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card)
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN)
Fujitsu LifeBook S6410G (Intel WiFi Link 4965 AGN)
Nokia E71
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia E90 Communicator
(I used to have HP PhotoSmart C7280 All-in-One connected to the same wireless router through wi-fi 802.11g, but currently left in my home country)

Wired device connected:
Western Digital My Book World Edition II 1TB (gigabit ethernet)

I don't think that I have problems with default frame burst set enabled. My wife often uses the Mini or my kids with the Nokias to view streamings from YouTube in the same time I watch HD movie from the Western Digital. Infact Western Digital My Book is kinda slow for a gigabit NAS.

The key to get 270Mbps with non-dual band wireless router with Dell 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card is just by installing the latest driver. It has default settings to use Wide Band Channel at 2.4 GHz. But for Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN, I have to open its Advanced page in Device Manager and set the 802.11n Channel (2.4 GHz) to Auto.

And I'm planning to replace the WiFi Link 4965 in my Fujitsu with 5300 in near future so that all the (draft n) devices can utilize the wide band capability of my single band router.

 

I have a Intel 5100 and a WRT610n and i can only get 135Mbps, It does connect @ 270Mbps for around 3 seconds, before always giving me an excellent signal @ 135.

I have given up on getting any better with the 5100 and 610n

 

Stupid question guys......What is the fastest way to read your spead#s? My Wireless icon in the task bar never changes from 54Mbps? I have gone to Speedtest.net and such amd my download speeds are always hitting in high 5's to low 6k's

 

If what you mean is XP's taskbar balloon notification saying 54Mbps all the time, then your wireless card in your notebook or PC is always connected to the wireless router/access point constantly at 54Mbps. This is your WLAN speed. In case of Speedtest.net, you'll get the speed of your internet connection, measuring the transfer rate from your PC-WLAN-Modem to the nearest available speedtest.net test server, vice versa.

So... It depends which speed you want to know.